I fail to see how this would help at all. Part of the problem with someone gaining access to your e-mail account is that it can be used to gain access to all of your accounts. The other problem is that it can be used to send spam/viruses. Neither of those would be fixed by encryption. If you want encrypted e-mail, use servers under your control.
Your talking about U.S. citizens. If you're foreign and the U.S. doesn't like you we lock you up in a secret prison and you're never heard from again. The E.U. recently found a few of our secret prisons and got pissed, so we had to move them.
Back to the article, there isn't any pattern, my account got hacked too (my facebook account got hacked at the same time, but that was from an IP in South Korea).
Google (and others) should add a feature to allow me to restrict the IPs that can access my account. I'm never planning on logging in from anywhere in Asia, Africa or South America. If I ever did go to one of those places I could always change the setting. Two-factor authentication will probably be better though.
Why do Americans always think they have a democracy? It's a republic virtually everywhere. If it's anything like the rest of this country, the council probably represents far less than a majority of the town.
Besides that, there's the concept of tyrrany of the majority. Even if a majority of the town doesn't want towers, does that give them a right to deny them to those (who live in the town) that do? There's absolutely no good reason for this regulation, and yet they impose it. Good government should do what's best for its residents - and it should not deny the wishes of one group because of the irrational fears of another. That's why we have a republic, and not a democracy.
Near future? My local grocery store (Wegmans) has been doing that for at least 15 years, and they've never even had a self checkout. The other grocery store in the area is Tops, they have self checkout, and it SUCKS. It's ridiculously slow, (five seconds between screen loads in 2010?) and the first time I used it I still had to go to the dunce "watching" (talking to her friends) the terminals to sign my receipt. The Tops I went to was a new store, they had fewer normal checkout lines than even the smallest Wegmans.
Unless there's a major improvement in these self checkouts, (they can start by using hardware/software that's faster than these new Windows based ATMs) I think competitive stores will start finding themselves LOSING business solely because they have a self checkout and the customer experience is lousy it leaves the customer with a bad view of the whole store.
The President was born on U.S. territory, we had already steamrolled the existing government and set up our own. He's not foreign born, even the Faux News talking heads agree with that now. If you still think he's foreign born please finish the bottle of bleach that caused you to think it in the first place.
The definition of copyright infringement as theft is completely contrived. If I steal your car, take it for a joy ride and return it, have I caused you harm? Yes, you lost the use of your car for some period of time, in addition to gas in the tank and wear and tear on the car. If I go to the library and borrow a book written by you, have I stolen? No, because the law says I haven't. Intellectual property is something created solely through law, it has no basis in nature. This by necessity means that it might be defined too broadly or too narrowly. You can make the argument that these people broke the law and ought to be punished. You cannot validly make the argument that they caused a measurable loss to the IP "owner" since the owner lacked natural right to the IP in the first place.
Note that I am not advocating the abolition of all IP law. I am simply stating the fact that the law does not define morality.
By the way, your claim that "making your own currency is stealing" is obviously false. Passing off the currency is fraud, not theft. Same goes for stock. However, sending someone a copy of a movie without making any claim that it is legally licensed for such distribution is not fraud. Making your own U.S. currency would certainly be illegal, but the definition of the crime and the reasoning behind it is nowhere near theft.
> And here in the US you can pay to get such things if you have children, but nobody forces you to pay for such things if you don't watch them.
Actually, we also have PBS, publically funded, clean, educational television. I get at least 3 different PBS channels over ATSC. No "dirty" commercials to worry about either. If you really want to make sure your kids don't see anything bad just put it on that channel and lock it.
Otherwise, let the commercial entities be commercial entities and show whatever gets them the most viewers.
Aside from oil companies, I doubt any of those industries have union workers. However, unions are certainly on strong footing when it comes to local governments. They can block just about anything, both good ideas and bad ones.
Hate to play devil's advocate here, but cartels are not (usually) legally protected, and legally the board of a company can hire whatever CEO they want. Unions, however, are legally protected entities. It would be a bit nuts to fire all the teachers and hire new people, but the law is there because some employers would do it if they could.
Teachers Unions are worried because true evaluation of teacher performance would create two classes of teachers for them: those that were good at their job and didn't need the union to help them, and those who were bad at their job and the union could not save. That would make the union ineffective, threatening the pay of those who run the union. It's an institution and center of power, and it has a will of its own. This shouldn't be, unions were intended to prevent employer abuse, not to stop employers from hiring the best people for the job.
Saying that it's over-diagnosed is not the saem as saying it doesn't exist. Psychology, especially child psychology is hardly perfect. Plus, we can observe the phenomenon of parents letting the TV raise their kids, is it so unbelievable that some of those same parents would prefer to drug a perfectly normal (if perhaps immature) kid just to make their lives easier?
Someone must have been stoned when they did this survey. I'm planning on replacing my current Toyota Matrix with a Volt when I'm finished paying it off in 2012. I make less than $100,000/yr (substantially less) but the price is well within the affordable range for me. $200,000+? Aren't those the people who buy sports cars and would feel the Volt was too "weak"? The rebate on the Volt is definitely incentive for me to get it - a $41,000 car would be too expensive.
As for the economics - some of the government funding went towards building a battery plant in the U.S. That should help bring prices down and increase production (currently all of the batteries are coming from LG Chem, and I think they only have single plant producing them).
Sarcasm? What sarcasm? I stated my honest beliefs. I'm sure in Pakistan they would want me executed. In fact, as a gay atheist I should probably avoid the entire Middle East.
It's being modded-up because of the issue at hand. If Pakistan wants to ban sites for "blasphemy", a completely ridiculous crime, then I will practice blasphemy. It is my right to do so in any free country. If I said your house was painted a stupid color, that would be my protected right. The fact that some may find it somehow more offensive to insult their religion is merely their personal view, they receive no more protection.
Note that I didn't say that Muslims were evil, terrorists, should be killed, or anything of the sort, nor do I believe any of those things. I do believe what I said in my original post, and it is my right to say it. The government of Pakistan believes they can filter what their people can read on the grounds that they disagree with it. This is ridiculous, totalitarian concept. They stupidity of their actions should be brought to light at every opportunity.
Muhammad was just another drugged out nut in the desert. God (or Allah) is just fantasy. There is no God. The entire Islamic faith is based on fantasy.
USPS has a monopoly on certain types of mail, so it is an issue. Drop the monopoly, and the tax break they get and make them a real private corp. I'm one of those bleeding-heart liberals, I still think the USPS is a waste of money. They just stopped picking up mail where I live, with the nearest blue bin a couple of miles away. They still make sure to deliver all their junk mail on time, though.
When you install the application is lists the permissions it has, including "Ability to make calls" and "Access to SMS messages", there's quite a number of possibles, but the list always presented. People complain if your app has access to something it shouldn't, e.g. your location.
DeCSS is only illegal under the DMCA and other "anti-circumvention" laws. Open source has a history of respecting copyrights, but the DMCA is completely different. The DMCA also doesn't exist in most countries, and OSS has no interest init being followed. OSS does have an interest in copyright and copyright does exist in most jurisdictions.
There are whole categories of apps that the iPhone lacks too, like locale or foxyring-types, plus Google Voice, which I use for SMS and Voicemail. Honestly, I had the G1 and now I have a Droid, I haven't seen any of my friends with iPhones that have apps that don't exist on Android, what am I missing?
Would you go to the original site more or less if BoingBoing didn't exist? I'm subscribed to the BBC RSS feed, I'm sure I go there more because of the feed even though I skip most of the articles after reading the summary.
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I fail to see how this would help at all. Part of the problem with someone gaining access to your e-mail account is that it can be used to gain access to all of your accounts. The other problem is that it can be used to send spam/viruses. Neither of those would be fixed by encryption. If you want encrypted e-mail, use servers under your control.
Your talking about U.S. citizens. If you're foreign and the U.S. doesn't like you we lock you up in a secret prison and you're never heard from again. The E.U. recently found a few of our secret prisons and got pissed, so we had to move them.
Back to the article, there isn't any pattern, my account got hacked too (my facebook account got hacked at the same time, but that was from an IP in South Korea).
Google (and others) should add a feature to allow me to restrict the IPs that can access my account. I'm never planning on logging in from anywhere in Asia, Africa or South America. If I ever did go to one of those places I could always change the setting. Two-factor authentication will probably be better though.
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What are you, 12? Get off your mommy's computer and go take your meds.
Look up the definition of democracy, moron.
Why do Americans always think they have a democracy? It's a republic virtually everywhere. If it's anything like the rest of this country, the council probably represents far less than a majority of the town.
Besides that, there's the concept of tyrrany of the majority. Even if a majority of the town doesn't want towers, does that give them a right to deny them to those (who live in the town) that do? There's absolutely no good reason for this regulation, and yet they impose it. Good government should do what's best for its residents - and it should not deny the wishes of one group because of the irrational fears of another. That's why we have a republic, and not a democracy.
Near future? My local grocery store (Wegmans) has been doing that for at least 15 years, and they've never even had a self checkout. The other grocery store in the area is Tops, they have self checkout, and it SUCKS. It's ridiculously slow, (five seconds between screen loads in 2010?) and the first time I used it I still had to go to the dunce "watching" (talking to her friends) the terminals to sign my receipt. The Tops I went to was a new store, they had fewer normal checkout lines than even the smallest Wegmans.
Unless there's a major improvement in these self checkouts, (they can start by using hardware/software that's faster than these new Windows based ATMs) I think competitive stores will start finding themselves LOSING business solely because they have a self checkout and the customer experience is lousy it leaves the customer with a bad view of the whole store.
The President was born on U.S. territory, we had already steamrolled the existing government and set up our own. He's not foreign born, even the Faux News talking heads agree with that now. If you still think he's foreign born please finish the bottle of bleach that caused you to think it in the first place.
The definition of copyright infringement as theft is completely contrived. If I steal your car, take it for a joy ride and return it, have I caused you harm? Yes, you lost the use of your car for some period of time, in addition to gas in the tank and wear and tear on the car. If I go to the library and borrow a book written by you, have I stolen? No, because the law says I haven't. Intellectual property is something created solely through law, it has no basis in nature. This by necessity means that it might be defined too broadly or too narrowly. You can make the argument that these people broke the law and ought to be punished. You cannot validly make the argument that they caused a measurable loss to the IP "owner" since the owner lacked natural right to the IP in the first place.
Note that I am not advocating the abolition of all IP law. I am simply stating the fact that the law does not define morality.
By the way, your claim that "making your own currency is stealing" is obviously false. Passing off the currency is fraud, not theft. Same goes for stock. However, sending someone a copy of a movie without making any claim that it is legally licensed for such distribution is not fraud. Making your own U.S. currency would certainly be illegal, but the definition of the crime and the reasoning behind it is nowhere near theft.
> And here in the US you can pay to get such things if you have children, but nobody forces you to pay for such things if you don't watch them.
Actually, we also have PBS, publically funded, clean, educational television. I get at least 3 different PBS channels over ATSC. No "dirty" commercials to worry about either. If you really want to make sure your kids don't see anything bad just put it on that channel and lock it.
Otherwise, let the commercial entities be commercial entities and show whatever gets them the most viewers.
Aside from oil companies, I doubt any of those industries have union workers. However, unions are certainly on strong footing when it comes to local governments. They can block just about anything, both good ideas and bad ones.
Hate to play devil's advocate here, but cartels are not (usually) legally protected, and legally the board of a company can hire whatever CEO they want. Unions, however, are legally protected entities. It would be a bit nuts to fire all the teachers and hire new people, but the law is there because some employers would do it if they could.
Teachers Unions are worried because true evaluation of teacher performance would create two classes of teachers for them: those that were good at their job and didn't need the union to help them, and those who were bad at their job and the union could not save. That would make the union ineffective, threatening the pay of those who run the union. It's an institution and center of power, and it has a will of its own. This shouldn't be, unions were intended to prevent employer abuse, not to stop employers from hiring the best people for the job.
Saying that it's over-diagnosed is not the saem as saying it doesn't exist. Psychology, especially child psychology is hardly perfect. Plus, we can observe the phenomenon of parents letting the TV raise their kids, is it so unbelievable that some of those same parents would prefer to drug a perfectly normal (if perhaps immature) kid just to make their lives easier?
Someone must have been stoned when they did this survey. I'm planning on replacing my current Toyota Matrix with a Volt when I'm finished paying it off in 2012. I make less than $100,000/yr (substantially less) but the price is well within the affordable range for me. $200,000+? Aren't those the people who buy sports cars and would feel the Volt was too "weak"? The rebate on the Volt is definitely incentive for me to get it - a $41,000 car would be too expensive.
As for the economics - some of the government funding went towards building a battery plant in the U.S. That should help bring prices down and increase production (currently all of the batteries are coming from LG Chem, and I think they only have single plant producing them).
Sorry, I got the indentation level confused. On your second point, I agree 100%.
I don't see the Vatican filtering out what their follows can see, though I've heard Scientology does something like that.
Not that I have any more respect for Christianity/Catholicism than Islam.
Make them a private corporation, with everything that goes along with that. The USPS is no longer an essential means of communication.
Sarcasm? What sarcasm? I stated my honest beliefs. I'm sure in Pakistan they would want me executed. In fact, as a gay atheist I should probably avoid the entire Middle East.
It's being modded-up because of the issue at hand. If Pakistan wants to ban sites for "blasphemy", a completely ridiculous crime, then I will practice blasphemy. It is my right to do so in any free country. If I said your house was painted a stupid color, that would be my protected right. The fact that some may find it somehow more offensive to insult their religion is merely their personal view, they receive no more protection.
Note that I didn't say that Muslims were evil, terrorists, should be killed, or anything of the sort, nor do I believe any of those things. I do believe what I said in my original post, and it is my right to say it. The government of Pakistan believes they can filter what their people can read on the grounds that they disagree with it. This is ridiculous, totalitarian concept. They stupidity of their actions should be brought to light at every opportunity.
Muhammad was just another drugged out nut in the desert. God (or Allah) is just fantasy. There is no God. The entire Islamic faith is based on fantasy.
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USPS has a monopoly on certain types of mail, so it is an issue. Drop the monopoly, and the tax break they get and make them a real private corp. I'm one of those bleeding-heart liberals, I still think the USPS is a waste of money. They just stopped picking up mail where I live, with the nearest blue bin a couple of miles away. They still make sure to deliver all their junk mail on time, though.
When you install the application is lists the permissions it has, including "Ability to make calls" and "Access to SMS messages", there's quite a number of possibles, but the list always presented. People complain if your app has access to something it shouldn't, e.g. your location.
Perhaps he meant the "web" not the internet itself. Closed-source software doesn't belong.
You also wouldn't like the internet without open-source software, plenty of it runs various parts of the internet, including DNS.
DeCSS is only illegal under the DMCA and other "anti-circumvention" laws. Open source has a history of respecting copyrights, but the DMCA is completely different. The DMCA also doesn't exist in most countries, and OSS has no interest init being followed. OSS does have an interest in copyright and copyright does exist in most jurisdictions.
There are whole categories of apps that the iPhone lacks too, like locale or foxyring-types, plus Google Voice, which I use for SMS and Voicemail. Honestly, I had the G1 and now I have a Droid, I haven't seen any of my friends with iPhones that have apps that don't exist on Android, what am I missing?
How about just firing them when they don't get their work done on time? Quite a bit easier than watching everything they do.
Would you go to the original site more or less if BoingBoing didn't exist? I'm subscribed to the BBC RSS feed, I'm sure I go there more because of the feed even though I skip most of the articles after reading the summary.