I was gonna say the same but couldnt come up with a way of saying "think of the children and download kiddie porn" without it coming across the wrong way.
I think the take-away here is that the MPAA and RIAA are steadfast in their support of kiddie porn producers.
And no, I'm not defending child porn users. Well, I guess I sort of am. But not... Darn it, you guys know what I mean.
Kiddie porn pirates are not the problem, the problem are all the people involved in the production. If you believe the MAFIAA's rhetoric the pirates are the solution since they are destroying the jobs of all the hard-working people in the kiddie porn industry.
(6) You can't delete notifications from the messages slashbox without javascript (you can from the intermediary messages page) -- just found this one out as I tried to delete the notification of your message.
(1) You can't moderate without javascript (2) You can't vote on firehose/frontpage entries without javascript (3) You can't unhide the collapsed article summaries on the front page without javascript (even though they are embed in the page itself, they could just use some CSS to do it) (4) Changing account preferences is hit-or-miss without javascript (5) You can't get the low-javascript "classic discussion" mode unless you create an account and log in. it knows enough to tell you that you should turn it on, but it won't let you turn it on without being logged in.
Google does not have the ability to put us on the no-fly list. "Ok" or not, the threat level just isn't the same.
But they could affect your credit score which, given the ever expanding uses (like employment, housing, even dating) can have an even larger effect on the average person's life than being on the no-fly list.
Yes, those are dull as dirt. I don't know why you would think otherwise. They are completely standardized. A couple of minutes on youtube looking for russian dashcam videos will bring up all kinds of crashes that actually qualify as "crazy."
If there was ever indisputable proof that Slashdot needs to maintain javascript-free functionality in slashcode, this is it. If it were viable to use slashdot with javascript disabled, this sort of impersonation attack would be a lot harder to pull off because NoScipt would have protected from drive-by nsa-ware infections hoisted on the slashdot impersonator site.
Unfortunately, its been years since it was reasonable to use slashdot without javascript. Even if you still use the old style interface, there are too many corners where javascript has crept into the design in a mandatory way rather than just as an enhancement.
That is a blanket unsupported assertion, particularly given the context of google's current business model starting to fail, perhaps as a result of the public's move to more decentralized communications (p2p messaging, etc) that aren't so ammendable to google's "man in the middle" services.
2) It would be bad breaking the NDA
What NDA? Google didn't sign any contracts. You agreed to a click-through contract that includes terms that permit Google to change the terms whenever and however they see fit.
We all know that so called ad targeting works by building up profiles on people intended to categorize their interests -- very much like the NSA's own automated profiling and analysis systems. But the profiling system can't tell the difference between a favorable interest and a disgusted interest (much like they can't tell if you've already bought those shoes you were searching for two weeks ago and so keep showing you ads for shoes).
That they've decided to show the guy recruiting ads because he's been reading articles about how the NSA is a bunch of nationalistic spying assholes is the cherry on top, a perfect demonstration how pervasive surveillance can't actually understand the intent of people and thus will have an overwhelming percentage of false positives.
Well, no they won't because that's not how it works
That's not how it works today while Google is rolling in the dough. When they hit hard times, that could easily change, but all the data they've collected over the last decade will still be right there, tempting management to sell it for a quick buck.
Also, the whole "misunderstood masterpiece" bit is absurd. What little satire exists was recognized by Roger Ebert
I had just finished reading that review and no, Ebert really missed the boat. Yes he recognized some of the message, but then says this without a hint of irony:
We smile at the satirical asides, but where's the warmth of human nature? The spark of genius or rebellion? If "Star Wars'' is humanist, "Starship Troopers'' is totalitarian.
He got it on the nose, Starship Troopers is the embodiment of totalitarianism -- that's why there is no "spark of rebellion" no "warmth of human nature" its a totalitarian society that has squashed human nature -- and yet he didn't realize it even as he was writing it.
I very much support GIMP in using their own FTP server. Of course, nothing stops them from hosting their own bittorent tracker though. Using bit-torrent doesn't mean the torrent files has to go through the pirate bay or other torrent sites.
They don't even need to host their own tracker. There are some industrial strength public trackers out there:
They don't host torrents or anything else, they just provider tracker service. The gimp project would only need to generate a torrent file with one or more of those listed as trackers and then stick the torrent file on their ftp site.
Like a regular to small size phone but for those times you need something bigger than 5" it has a little valve you can blow into when which will inflate a screen that is bigger than a tablet. When you are done, just squish the air out and stick it back in your pocket.
Of course it is. And cold fjord is a shill, propaganda mouthpiece.
No, I don't think so. I think he's just a jingoistic authoritarian. There are real people like that, living in a mental box they've built for themselves thinking it is really "the real world."
I'm pretty sure they weren't tailing foreign diplomats in a room.
You got me! They bugged a room with diplomats, which is exactly the same as scooping up everything they can get on anyone they can think of.
I don't really have a problem with any spy agency spying on another government, that's their job and so this whole thing about Angela Merkel losing her shit is laughable. In fact its sauce for the goose since she didn't seem to have a problem when the NSA was only spying on regular people.
This example in Brasil is just government-on-government spying and really low-key spying at that.
This story reeks of the NSA trying to do damage control and doing a piss-poor job of it.
As best as I can tell it boils down to brazil having tailed some foreign diplomats while they were in country. OMG! So that makes them even with the NSA breaking into anything and everything on the internet. It's totally the same!
If I had the only key to the server room and got fired but didn't turn in the key, I would expect retribution of some form, especially if the office had a steel door that took weeks to break down.
What kind of idiot budgets for a server room with a steel door that takes weeks to break down but doesn't include a duplicate key for the security office to hold? Why isn't that idiot the one in jail? What if you lost the key, would you still be OK with being sent to jail for not returning it?
Every time Rogers opens his mouth he says that the intelligence committee was fully briefed and that they knew what was going on. What Feinstein and Rogers are implicitly admitting is that Snowden didn't just blow the whistle on the NSA. He blew it on the intelligence committee too for not doing their job of oversight.
Its just silly to think he should have reported to them that they were corrupt and/or incompetent.
nearly every adult in the US remembers a time when we measured ourselves by what we are not and what we will not and do not do. Now we are doing it.
Try asking anyone under 30 if they know what the phrase "Papers Please!" denotes - I've had no luck finding a single person in real life who knows about it.
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I was gonna say the same but couldnt come up with a way of saying "think of the children and download kiddie porn" without it coming across the wrong way.
I think the take-away here is that the MPAA and RIAA are steadfast in their support of kiddie porn producers.
And no, I'm not defending child porn users. Well, I guess I sort of am. But not... Darn it, you guys know what I mean.
Kiddie porn pirates are not the problem, the problem are all the people involved in the production. If you believe the MAFIAA's rhetoric the pirates are the solution since they are destroying the jobs of all the hard-working people in the kiddie porn industry.
(6) You can't delete notifications from the messages slashbox without javascript (you can from the intermediary messages page) -- just found this one out as I tried to delete the notification of your message.
Off the top of my head:
(1) You can't moderate without javascript
(2) You can't vote on firehose/frontpage entries without javascript
(3) You can't unhide the collapsed article summaries on the front page without javascript (even though they are embed in the page itself, they could just use some CSS to do it)
(4) Changing account preferences is hit-or-miss without javascript
(5) You can't get the low-javascript "classic discussion" mode unless you create an account and log in. it knows enough to tell you that you should turn it on, but it won't let you turn it on without being logged in.
That's a great picture in the autoguide article.
Google does not have the ability to put us on the no-fly list. "Ok" or not, the threat level just isn't the same.
But they could affect your credit score which, given the ever expanding uses (like employment, housing, even dating) can have an even larger effect on the average person's life than being on the no-fly list.
Lax rules created fertile ground for NSA snooping.
No, rules don't make any difference to criminals, NSA or otherwise.
It is the high value of centralizing all that data info which makes for fertile ground.
Yes, those are dull as dirt. I don't know why you would think otherwise. They are completely standardized. A couple of minutes on youtube looking for russian dashcam videos will bring up all kinds of crashes that actually qualify as "crazy."
What I am really interested in are the "crazy crashes" the OP mentioned. Those aren't in the NHTSA rating, those tests are quite boring.
Have you seen the overall model S safety and notice no one has any permanent injuries despite some crazy crashes?
I would like to read this overall safety record, what is the link for it, please?
If there was ever indisputable proof that Slashdot needs to maintain javascript-free functionality in slashcode, this is it. If it were viable to use slashdot with javascript disabled, this sort of impersonation attack would be a lot harder to pull off because NoScipt would have protected from drive-by nsa-ware infections hoisted on the slashdot impersonator site.
Unfortunately, its been years since it was reasonable to use slashdot without javascript. Even if you still use the old style interface, there are too many corners where javascript has crept into the design in a mandatory way rather than just as an enhancement.
1) It would be bad for business
That is a blanket unsupported assertion, particularly given the context of google's current business model starting to fail, perhaps as a result of the public's move to more decentralized communications (p2p messaging, etc) that aren't so ammendable to google's "man in the middle" services.
2) It would be bad breaking the NDA
What NDA? Google didn't sign any contracts. You agreed to a click-through contract that includes terms that permit Google to change the terms whenever and however they see fit.
We all know that so called ad targeting works by building up profiles on people intended to categorize their interests -- very much like the NSA's own automated profiling and analysis systems. But the profiling system can't tell the difference between a favorable interest and a disgusted interest (much like they can't tell if you've already bought those shoes you were searching for two weeks ago and so keep showing you ads for shoes).
That they've decided to show the guy recruiting ads because he's been reading articles about how the NSA is a bunch of nationalistic spying assholes is the cherry on top, a perfect demonstration how pervasive surveillance can't actually understand the intent of people and thus will have an overwhelming percentage of false positives.
If real people at the FBI can't even tell the different between someone reporting a threat against themselves and a threat against the FBI profiling systems can only automate keystone cop level of surveillance effectiveness.
Well, no they won't because that's not how it works
That's not how it works today while Google is rolling in the dough. When they hit hard times, that could easily change, but all the data they've collected over the last decade will still be right there, tempting management to sell it for a quick buck.
Are there anyone that will host the torrents for you so that there is always at least one seed?
There is always web seeding.
Also, the whole "misunderstood masterpiece" bit is absurd. What little satire exists was recognized by Roger Ebert
I had just finished reading that review and no, Ebert really missed the boat. Yes he recognized some of the message, but then says this without a hint of irony:
We smile at the satirical asides, but where's the warmth of human nature? The spark of genius or rebellion? If "Star Wars'' is humanist, "Starship Troopers'' is totalitarian.
He got it on the nose, Starship Troopers is the embodiment of totalitarianism -- that's why there is no "spark of rebellion" no "warmth of human nature" its a totalitarian society that has squashed human nature -- and yet he didn't realize it even as he was writing it.
I very much support GIMP in using their own FTP server. Of course, nothing stops them from hosting their own bittorent tracker though. Using bit-torrent doesn't mean the torrent files has to go through the pirate bay or other torrent sites.
They don't even need to host their own tracker. There are some industrial strength public trackers out there:
PublicBitTorrent
OpenBitTorrent
Demonii
They don't host torrents or anything else, they just provider tracker service. The gimp project would only need to generate a torrent file with one or more of those listed as trackers and then stick the torrent file on their ftp site.
I'm waiting for inflatable screens.
Like a regular to small size phone but for those times you need something bigger than 5" it has a little valve you can blow into when which will inflate a screen that is bigger than a tablet. When you are done, just squish the air out and stick it back in your pocket.
I was going to say that they return Futurama quotes but then I checked and they are gone. When did that happen?
When the devs starting getting real head?
Of course it is. And cold fjord is a shill, propaganda mouthpiece.
No, I don't think so. I think he's just a jingoistic authoritarian. There are real people like that, living in a mental box they've built for themselves thinking it is really "the real world."
I'm pretty sure they weren't tailing foreign diplomats in a room.
You got me! They bugged a room with diplomats, which is exactly the same as scooping up everything they can get on anyone they can think of.
I don't really have a problem with any spy agency spying on another government, that's their job and so this whole thing about Angela Merkel losing her shit is laughable. In fact its sauce for the goose since she didn't seem to have a problem when the NSA was only spying on regular people.
This example in Brasil is just government-on-government spying and really low-key spying at that.
This story reeks of the NSA trying to do damage control and doing a piss-poor job of it.
As best as I can tell it boils down to brazil having tailed some foreign diplomats while they were in country. OMG! So that makes them even with the NSA breaking into anything and everything on the internet. It's totally the same!
If I had the only key to the server room and got fired but didn't turn in the key, I would expect retribution of some form, especially if the office had a steel door that took weeks to break down.
What kind of idiot budgets for a server room with a steel door that takes weeks to break down but doesn't include a duplicate key for the security office to hold? Why isn't that idiot the one in jail? What if you lost the key, would you still be OK with being sent to jail for not returning it?
Every time Rogers opens his mouth he says that the intelligence committee was fully briefed and that they knew what was going on. What Feinstein and Rogers are implicitly admitting is that Snowden didn't just blow the whistle on the NSA. He blew it on the intelligence committee too for not doing their job of oversight.
Its just silly to think he should have reported to them that they were corrupt and/or incompetent.
nearly every adult in the US remembers a time when we measured ourselves by what we are not and what we will not and do not do. Now we are doing it.
Try asking anyone under 30 if they know what the phrase "Papers Please!" denotes - I've had no luck finding a single person in real life who knows about it.