Then why do practically all US based news sources emphasise that this snooping may also be happening to Americans? As if that's where the line is getting crossed?
Either they think their readers need it to be happening to them before they'll give a shit. Or they think their readers are entirely OK with snooping on innocent foreigners, but not innocent Americans. Either way, that's worrying.
If the charge is going through a USB port then it must conform to the USB standard, otherwise it is not a USB port, and the manufacturer is an idiot for making it look like one.
The USB standard specifies the acceptable voltage range. All USB power adapters must conform to that. Same goes for every USB port on your computer.
This is the whole point of using the USB standard, it removes so much hassle for the end user with multiple devices. It's easy; if it's a USB cable, and the device has a USB port, then it will work with any USB charger. You may get USB ports that are under-powered for certain uses, especially if you are using a USB hub, but you shouldn't ever get one over-powered.
Find me a kid who fully appreciates the effects and dangers of measles, mumps and/or rubella.
To a kid it's a no brainer comparison. Immunisation means you will get stuck with a needle and it will hurt. As for all those diseases, well you may not get them at all, and if you do they just means days off school in bed. No biggy.
Bottom line; kids don't have a clue. Cos they're kids. Asking them to consider the merits of immunisation is not necessarily going to result what's best for them.
But this has always been a limitation to parking, particularly parallel parking. It doesn't matter how brilliant you are at getting into a space, you still have to account for how useless the drivers of the cars next to you may be. You may be able to skilfully squeeze in and out without scratching anyone's paintwork, but that's no comfort when they don't.
And there's nothing more annoying than coming back to your car and finding some a*hole has parked so close to you that it's nearly impossible (or totally impossible) for you to get out. I can just see early users of this system being those a*holes.
So I won't be making any use of this technology until it is uniformly available on all cars.
See, this is what happens when your only view on international politics is through Hollywood action movies and FPS video games. Simple to understand good guys (Americans, naturally) and bad guys (communist foreigners). The former; all that is right and god fearing in the world. The latter; inhuman, unthinking, immoral evil who eat babies.
I think that system has been tried...in socialist and communist countries.
What? I don't recall any part of socialist or communist doctrine headed "Consequences in fiction". Are you maybe thinking of totalitarian countries, where the emphasis is more about adherence to the glorious leader's wishes?
What I'd like to know is that if one resident doesn't contribute, does the security patrol still leap into action when they get robbed in the street, or do they just ignore it?
If they do nothing; well there's your problem with opt-in crowdsourced security. Is each security patrol going to have to consult a funders list before deciding to tackle a crime? Do the criminals consult the list before they decide who to rob? Does the patrol not have an obligation as citizens to at least phone the cops? Will the neighbourhood really feel any safer?
If they do something; how long before those paying for the security either get pissed off with the freeloaders, or join them?
This is why law enforcement and protection always needs to be a compulsory purchase; aka taxes.
Every citizen should be charged with the responsibility of protecting themselves, their family, their property and those same of those around them.
And if they are not capable of doing this? I would say that most people do as much as they can along these lines. But there will always be some who are basically helpless and cannot protect themselves.
You've missed the point. No one cares about what's best for the roach. The roach is a insect without much of any brain and no conscious.
What makes it worse is the attitude it fosters within the child.
I'm not convinced it'll turn anyone into a psychopaths, but studies suggest this is how psychopaths start out; torturing insects and small animals. So this is one small step away from pulling wings off bees. Except this has educational approval!
You seem delighted to put him in his place. Unfortunately he also happened to be an elected minister and the only influence you have on how your country is run.
So if his standing in the pecking order is worthless, where does that leave the rest of us?
It's amazing how voluntary becomes compulsory if the only other option is to steadily become a non-person, with no access to anything provided in your society.
Voluntarily conform, or go live in a cave as a beach-comber.
You've missed the point. This is for businesses that not only may monitor your wifi connection, but also demand that you advertise their business to all your facebook "friends" before they'll let you use it.
This is just one more way that facebook is enabling businesses to worm their way into your online life. Next step is to give the business you "checked in" with access to your profile data, so next time you're in their shop using their wifi, they can serve up their adverts targeted at you. Are you ready for creepy stalker adverts that know where you are, and what you should be buying there? Are you ready for those adverts appearing on the shop menu, visible to all? It's going to happen.
Don't want to use their wifi? How about if they gave discounts that can only be accessed through your facebook account while you're ordering your coffee? How about when those discounts become the de-facto actual price, and the usual price is more of a non-facebook excess fee? Still going to be the refusenik?
Companies would argue that this is all about knowing you better, to better give you what you want. But I say this is handing over to them every advantage the customer ever had in the transaction.
90% of collective nouns are made-up bullshit only ever referenced in quizzes and "Did You Know" observations. No-one uses them in actual conversation, ever.
In my book that not only makes them Useless Knowledge, but also Fictional Knowledge.
How dare he promote his book! He should sneak it out under plain brown paper cover and not say a word. If he carries on with this kind of publicity nonsense, why, people may find themselves reading it! And then where would we be?!
Warwick has done a few daft stunts, but that's how you get the media to pay attention? Science needs people pushing at the edges of mainstream. They may often be on the wrong track, but I'd rather they were there doing it than not.
Yeah, wish they'd leave you alone to extinguish the blazing inferno that is your home, and catch the guy who robbed you at gun point. Let you handle your neighbor who wants to build a toxic waste dump on their front lawn. Get out of your way and let you find the hacker who stole all your money from the bank.
These are not their problems and none of their business. Because you are fit, strong and smart, and don't need any assistance to do all these things. And to hell with all those who aren't.
The problem with that would be, not unlike slashdot modding, people simply will not differentiate between "I don't like because I disagree" and "I don't like because your journalism sucks". Same goes for likes.
Mostly I don't care what people "feel", because I don't know how those feelings came about. I want to know what their reasoning is, if any, so I can attach a value to their "feeling".
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Testing it yourself only proves that FB is down for two people. You, and some other anonymous guy.
This does not make it a news story.
Then why do practically all US based news sources emphasise that this snooping may also be happening to Americans? As if that's where the line is getting crossed?
Either they think their readers need it to be happening to them before they'll give a shit. Or they think their readers are entirely OK with snooping on innocent foreigners, but not innocent Americans. Either way, that's worrying.
If you use a Bluetooth headset (as most PS3 owners do)
Most PS3 users do not use any headset, never mind those that are Bluetooth.
I think what you meant to say was "If your PS3 headset is Bluetooth (as most are).."
If the charge is going through a USB port then it must conform to the USB standard, otherwise it is not a USB port, and the manufacturer is an idiot for making it look like one.
The USB standard specifies the acceptable voltage range. All USB power adapters must conform to that. Same goes for every USB port on your computer.
This is the whole point of using the USB standard, it removes so much hassle for the end user with multiple devices. It's easy; if it's a USB cable, and the device has a USB port, then it will work with any USB charger. You may get USB ports that are under-powered for certain uses, especially if you are using a USB hub, but you shouldn't ever get one over-powered.
Find me a kid who fully appreciates the effects and dangers of measles, mumps and/or rubella.
To a kid it's a no brainer comparison. Immunisation means you will get stuck with a needle and it will hurt. As for all those diseases, well you may not get them at all, and if you do they just means days off school in bed. No biggy.
Bottom line; kids don't have a clue. Cos they're kids. Asking them to consider the merits of immunisation is not necessarily going to result what's best for them.
Which is pretty much what I said in the first half of my sentence that you chose not to quote.
"He may have been shot by a passing UFO's laser death ray." *
Happy now?
* Totally unfounded speculation that's almost certainly false.
But this has always been a limitation to parking, particularly parallel parking. It doesn't matter how brilliant you are at getting into a space, you still have to account for how useless the drivers of the cars next to you may be. You may be able to skilfully squeeze in and out without scratching anyone's paintwork, but that's no comfort when they don't.
And there's nothing more annoying than coming back to your car and finding some a*hole has parked so close to you that it's nearly impossible (or totally impossible) for you to get out. I can just see early users of this system being those a*holes.
So I won't be making any use of this technology until it is uniformly available on all cars.
These "laws" only hamper the good guys.
See, this is what happens when your only view on international politics is through Hollywood action movies and FPS video games. Simple to understand good guys (Americans, naturally) and bad guys (communist foreigners). The former; all that is right and god fearing in the world. The latter; inhuman, unthinking, immoral evil who eat babies.
I think that system has been tried...in socialist and communist countries.
What? I don't recall any part of socialist or communist doctrine headed "Consequences in fiction". Are you maybe thinking of totalitarian countries, where the emphasis is more about adherence to the glorious leader's wishes?
Games like GTA are fulfilling a need
You're also confusing "need" with "demand".
What I'd like to know is that if one resident doesn't contribute, does the security patrol still leap into action when they get robbed in the street, or do they just ignore it?
If they do nothing; well there's your problem with opt-in crowdsourced security. Is each security patrol going to have to consult a funders list before deciding to tackle a crime? Do the criminals consult the list before they decide who to rob? Does the patrol not have an obligation as citizens to at least phone the cops? Will the neighbourhood really feel any safer?
If they do something; how long before those paying for the security either get pissed off with the freeloaders, or join them?
This is why law enforcement and protection always needs to be a compulsory purchase; aka taxes.
Every citizen should be charged with the responsibility of protecting themselves, their family, their property and those same of those around them.
And if they are not capable of doing this? I would say that most people do as much as they can along these lines. But there will always be some who are basically helpless and cannot protect themselves.
You've missed the point. No one cares about what's best for the roach. The roach is a insect without much of any brain and no conscious.
What makes it worse is the attitude it fosters within the child.
I'm not convinced it'll turn anyone into a psychopaths, but studies suggest this is how psychopaths start out; torturing insects and small animals. So this is one small step away from pulling wings off bees. Except this has educational approval!
You seem delighted to put him in his place. Unfortunately he also happened to be an elected minister and the only influence you have on how your country is run.
So if his standing in the pecking order is worthless, where does that leave the rest of us?
We had a meeting and I was appointed "Derider of the Collective Noun". So I'm filling in for the entire kvetch.
It's amazing how voluntary becomes compulsory if the only other option is to steadily become a non-person, with no access to anything provided in your society.
Voluntarily conform, or go live in a cave as a beach-comber.
You've missed the point. This is for businesses that not only may monitor your wifi connection, but also demand that you advertise their business to all your facebook "friends" before they'll let you use it.
This is just one more way that facebook is enabling businesses to worm their way into your online life. Next step is to give the business you "checked in" with access to your profile data, so next time you're in their shop using their wifi, they can serve up their adverts targeted at you. Are you ready for creepy stalker adverts that know where you are, and what you should be buying there? Are you ready for those adverts appearing on the shop menu, visible to all? It's going to happen.
Don't want to use their wifi? How about if they gave discounts that can only be accessed through your facebook account while you're ordering your coffee? How about when those discounts become the de-facto actual price, and the usual price is more of a non-facebook excess fee? Still going to be the refusenik?
Companies would argue that this is all about knowing you better, to better give you what you want. But I say this is handing over to them every advantage the customer ever had in the transaction.
Be afraid...
http://imgur.com/TTrA9KS ... be very afraid.
90% of collective nouns are made-up bullshit only ever referenced in quizzes and "Did You Know" observations. No-one uses them in actual conversation, ever.
In my book that not only makes them Useless Knowledge, but also Fictional Knowledge.
How dare he promote his book! He should sneak it out under plain brown paper cover and not say a word. If he carries on with this kind of publicity nonsense, why, people may find themselves reading it! And then where would we be?!
Warwick has done a few daft stunts, but that's how you get the media to pay attention? Science needs people pushing at the edges of mainstream. They may often be on the wrong track, but I'd rather they were there doing it than not.
Yes, but vending-machines have much better PR agents.
Yeah, wish they'd leave you alone to extinguish the blazing inferno that is your home, and catch the guy who robbed you at gun point. Let you handle your neighbor who wants to build a toxic waste dump on their front lawn. Get out of your way and let you find the hacker who stole all your money from the bank.
These are not their problems and none of their business. Because you are fit, strong and smart, and don't need any assistance to do all these things. And to hell with all those who aren't.
Making lots of money by pushing network packets around faster, to no real net benefit to anyone. Other than the ones pushing the packets.
The problem with that would be, not unlike slashdot modding, people simply will not differentiate between "I don't like because I disagree" and "I don't like because your journalism sucks". Same goes for likes.
Mostly I don't care what people "feel", because I don't know how those feelings came about. I want to know what their reasoning is, if any, so I can attach a value to their "feeling".
Now you tell us! What am I to do with all those mindless I've be storing up for the last 10 years?