Seriously, trace all you like on google maps (in your geography lessons, at work, in your council meetings) because we're going to take all your data and put adverts on it.
so how about doing something useful with all those aerial/street photos (like letting openstreetmap trace them, rather than have them sitting unused hoping someone at googleplex will find a way to paste ads on the pics before they become out-of-date)
The "If you have nothing to hide" lobby are missing an important point. We don't live in a full democracy. If we did, there would be no problem.
The difficulty lies in the fact that we have a tiered democracy (don't call it 'representative', it isn't.) We vote only for the people who will take the actual decisions; we have no say over the legislation itself. That system allows rich individuals and organisations to influence our 'representatives' far more effectively than our puny vote does.
it's worse than that - we vote for the people (MPs) who vote for the people (cabinet) who take the actual decisions. Who then appoint people like Mandy and Suralan (and the quangos of course) to actually decide policy.
The Pirate Party are the only ones serious about challenging ID cards; the tories are just making noises about it for political gain.
The Lib Dems and Greens are also strongly opposed to 'em, and both are more likely to be in a position to be able to assert power and do something about it. I fear the Pirate Party's obsession with 'free (gratis) stuff' also blinds them to the harm it'll do to Free (libre) software.
Free Software has always been at the forefront of Pirate Party policy, and when RMS speaks, the PPUK listens carefully and is careful to ensure that any proposed copyright reform will strengthen Free Software
(e.g. I think the current copyright reform idea from Pirate Party UK is that extended copyright should be conditional on source-code being held in escrow, for release upon expiry of the exclusivity period)
I think it's simpler than that, they literally mean "a force has been applied to the device from outside causing it to fail", i.e. it was dropped or struck.
isn't that particular force applied to all iphones, most of the time?
For example, use Google Chrome for your porn browsing, and then Firefox for your legit browsing.
In other words... Don't cross the streams!!
or better: run the same browser as different usernames. Then your normal account can't even access the data from the porn-browsing account. (especially when desktop-search or spotlight will happily index bookmarks from every browser installed)
History Block fixes this problem very nicely. It let's you setup a block list of urls that should not appear in the history.
The only thing more incriminating than that plugin's config file... is coding the plugin itself and writing "I frequent less-than-reputable websites while at work" in its release-notes
If you were trying to sue someone for violating your patent, where would you rather do it: A jurisdiction very friendly to patents, or one that is hostile to patents?
one that's where your office is, of course!
why are you allowed to pick remote locations to have a trial anyway? Isn't that like me suing you for publishing an atheist text in canada, and deciding that we should hold the trial under Iranian laws?
I suppose... if I'd wanted to phone them up, and if I'd been willing to spend the time arguing, I could probably have got my preloaded Ubuntu system. Instead, I thought "sod it" and order an Acer instead.
I do wonder if Dell are aware of they shenanigans going on at their UK subsidiary sometimes. Operating system evangelism is all very well, but this is costing them sales, you know?
That's pretty much how I remember Dell. All I wanted was a decent PC but with KDE and not Windows. Ubuntu wasn't available at all for 'business' machines (i.e. not pink laptops), and if I wanted RedHat I could phone them up and ask for a quote (i.e. no special offers). No thanks, I'll go for a company with linux PCs on their front page.
They must know how to preinstall different OS easily, since every Dell PC has a big long list of Windows options.
The whole idea behind credit reports being used for anything other than whether or not you should be extended credit leaves me sickened.
In fact, if you get paid in arrears, or if you put anything on expenses, then it's you who is lending to your employer. So need to do the credit check on them!
Did you happen to know that Pharma spends more for advertising in the US than R&D?
How about we get like almost every other country in the world, and ban prescription drug advertising, that would cut down on their costs dramatically, and make drugs cheaper for everyone.
wasn't there a good groklaw article on the subject just today?
I've worked as an elections inspector (poll worker) in the state of New York for the last five years. Every aspect of the machine (both the old style lever machines and the new optical scanning machines) that could be tampered with is sealed with numbered tamper evident devices. If the numbers on the seals don't match up with the records retained by the Board of Elections then you know the machine has been tampered with. This isn't rocket science people.
and then what happens? do you count its votes (knowing they might be faked) or not (somoene can remove your vote by cutting the seal)
Except it turns out that the illness was real, and in fact they argued in court (and that was why they were acquitted) that the kid died of the disease not of the punching and kicking received.
Please learn the differences among "their" and "there" and "they're" before you decide you're going to tell us a thing or two. It's your native fucking language so quit being so silly.
she wrote something informative but misspelled (while clearly understandable). You however are a waste of bandwidth. Journalists who can clearly trace and describe the theft of hundreds of billions of dollars are more important than reviewers who can spellcheck.
This should be taken with a bit of skepticism. There's a difference between positive cash flow (more cash coming in than going out), positive net income (what most people think of as 'profit') and positive EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, or profit from operations). TFA doesn't mention which Tesla is reporting.
It's not "positive cash flow while being given $465 million" then?
Bloat doesn't magically appear when you put an Apple logo on something.
Have you ever used Apple produced software (iTunes, Quicktime, etc.) on Windows? Or noticed their memory requirements on their own OS?
Not that MS is necessarily any better, but, yeah, Apple is one of the Triumvirate of Bloat for consumer software, in my not-so-humble opinion. The sit in their little triangular table with MS and Adobe.
Like 90MB of updates each month for an MP3 player? (itunes) I'm pretty sure that zinf is less than 1/20 that size total, and "just works" (TM)
Just because they can walk a straight line within the sensory limits of the officer doesn't mean there isn't a 5% or 10% reduction in reaction time that can be the difference between life and death in a car.
Then they could just make-up for that disadvantage by fitting >10% better brakes on their car. Are you saying that someone with an less-sporty car should be treated the same as a slightly-intoxicated driver, because they both take slightly more time to stop or steer?
If you login then of course you need a cookie. And using them for stats within one site is not much different to using IP addresses.
While I agree that there a significant benefit in using login cookies, they are not remotely âoenecessaryâ. Java-based servers have had a fantastic technique using a little-known part of the URI shceme where every segment can have parameters. It looks like this:
This allows cookie-like storage in a way that isn't able to be tracked across multiple domains.
great, so every time someone follows a link from your site (or you include an external image) their session key is transmitted via the referer header...
Is there anything more to say than Don't share them between sites?
If you login then of course you need a cookie. And using them for stats within one site is not much different to using IP addresses. But it's when you start including invisible images from a 3rd party site that shares the stats between multiple domains, that most people think crosses the line into creepy surveillance.
Login cookies = fine. Telling one site that you visited another site = not ok.
(or to phrase that another way: don't exploit loopholes in the security system)
I wonder how much clout it would really take to do a multi-technology MVNO that opportunistically selects the cheapest carrier or the one with the best signal, and stops trying to be a "phone company." EVDO, 3G GSM, WiMax, WiFi... all in one handset?
that's exactly what the cellphone companies want to make sure you can't do, so if you want to route calls over wifi or USB on your phone then you'll probably want something like OpenMoko which doesn't impose restrictions on the software you can run.
The Neo only has one SIM card though, so if you want to route over multiple cellphone networks then you might want a phone built in batches of 10 in a garage in hong kong.
To be superior to a gasoline car, it should have more than half the range of a gasoline powered car, I should think.
interesting idea.
most people I know are happy to take a gasoline car out on a trip while its fuel-warning indicator is lighted
i.e. the reserve on a tank is more than enough for most journeys. a half-tank could take you on holiday and back.
so the half-of-gasoline-tank threshold would actually be a pretty extreme huge amount of storage to put into an electric car (how often do you drive 300 miles without seeing a fuel/recharge station?)
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Seriously, trace all you like on google maps (in your geography lessons, at work, in your council meetings) because we're going to take all your data and put adverts on it.
regards, Ed.
so how about doing something useful with all those aerial/street photos (like letting openstreetmap trace them, rather than have them sitting unused hoping someone at googleplex will find a way to paste ads on the pics before they become out-of-date)
The "If you have nothing to hide" lobby are missing an important point. We don't live in a full democracy. If we did, there would be no problem.
The difficulty lies in the fact that we have a tiered democracy (don't call it 'representative', it isn't.) We vote only for the people who will take the actual decisions; we have no say over the legislation itself. That system allows rich individuals and organisations to influence our 'representatives' far more effectively than our puny vote does.
it's worse than that - we vote for the people (MPs) who vote for the people (cabinet) who take the actual decisions. Who then appoint people like Mandy and Suralan (and the quangos of course) to actually decide policy.
The Pirate Party are the only ones serious about challenging ID cards; the tories are just making noises about it for political gain.
The Lib Dems and Greens are also strongly opposed to 'em, and both are more likely to be in a position to be able to assert power and do something about it. I fear the Pirate Party's obsession with 'free (gratis) stuff' also blinds them to the harm it'll do to Free (libre) software.
Free Software has always been at the forefront of Pirate Party policy, and when RMS speaks, the PPUK listens carefully and is careful to ensure that any proposed copyright reform will strengthen Free Software
(e.g. I think the current copyright reform idea from Pirate Party UK is that extended copyright should be conditional on source-code being held in escrow, for release upon expiry of the exclusivity period)
I think it's simpler than that, they literally mean "a force has been applied to the device from outside causing it to fail", i.e. it was dropped or struck.
isn't that particular force applied to all iphones, most of the time?
Use different browsers for different purposes.
For example, use Google Chrome for your porn browsing, and then Firefox for your legit browsing.
In other words... Don't cross the streams!!
or better: run the same browser as different usernames. Then your normal account can't even access the data from the porn-browsing account. (especially when desktop-search or spotlight will happily index bookmarks from every browser installed)
History Block fixes this problem very nicely. It let's you setup a block list of urls that should not appear in the history.
The only thing more incriminating than that plugin's config file... is coding the plugin itself and writing "I frequent less-than-reputable websites while at work" in its release-notes
They'd still have to type them in, and then when you start typing "bigblackcollanders.com", the wrong URL might come up in the suggestions...
Really the solution is a Chrome-like incognito mode, which I thought the new FF had, but i dunno.
-Taylor
It does: "Tools -> Start Private Browsing" (cmd-shift-P) (new in v3.5)
and don't forget the 100% privacy surcharge (already mentioned in that link you posted) for paying by cash instead of RFID in London
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2007/jan/03/consumernews.transportintheuk
If you were trying to sue someone for violating your patent, where would you rather do it: A jurisdiction very friendly to patents, or one that is hostile to patents?
one that's where your office is, of course!
why are you allowed to pick remote locations to have a trial anyway? Isn't that like me suing you for publishing an atheist text in canada, and deciding that we should hold the trial under Iranian laws?
Or you can, you know, do it yourself.
Thanks, but I don't want to add to the stats showing number of people who "want" Windows.
I suppose ... if I'd wanted to phone them up, and if I'd been willing to spend the time arguing, I could probably have got my preloaded Ubuntu system.
Instead, I thought "sod it" and order an Acer instead.
I do wonder if Dell are aware of they shenanigans going on at their UK subsidiary sometimes. Operating system evangelism is all very well, but this is costing them sales, you know?
That's pretty much how I remember Dell. All I wanted was a decent PC but with KDE and not Windows. Ubuntu wasn't available at all for 'business' machines (i.e. not pink laptops), and if I wanted RedHat I could phone them up and ask for a quote (i.e. no special offers). No thanks, I'll go for a company with linux PCs on their front page.
They must know how to preinstall different OS easily, since every Dell PC has a big long list of Windows options.
The whole idea behind credit reports being used for anything other than whether or not you should be extended credit leaves me sickened.
In fact, if you get paid in arrears, or if you put anything on expenses, then it's you who is lending to your employer. So need to do the credit check on them!
Did you happen to know that Pharma spends more for advertising in the US than R&D?
How about we get like almost every other country in the world, and ban prescription drug advertising, that would cut down on their costs dramatically, and make drugs cheaper for everyone.
wasn't there a good groklaw article on the subject just today?
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090809231252693
I've worked as an elections inspector (poll worker) in the state of New York for the last five years. Every aspect of the machine (both the old style lever machines and the new optical scanning machines) that could be tampered with is sealed with numbered tamper evident devices. If the numbers on the seals don't match up with the records retained by the Board of Elections then you know the machine has been tampered with. This isn't rocket science people.
and then what happens? do you count its votes (knowing they might be faked) or not (somoene can remove your vote by cutting the seal)
Except it turns out that the illness was real, and in fact they argued in court (and that was why they were acquitted) that the kid died of the disease not of the punching and kicking received.
That argument seems to have got more popular recently..
Please learn the differences among "their" and "there" and "they're" before you decide you're going to tell us a thing or two. It's your native fucking language so quit being so silly.
she wrote something informative but misspelled (while clearly understandable). You however are a waste of bandwidth. Journalists who can clearly trace and describe the theft of hundreds of billions of dollars are more important than reviewers who can spellcheck.
This should be taken with a bit of skepticism. There's a difference between positive cash flow (more cash coming in than going out), positive net income (what most people think of as 'profit') and positive EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, or profit from operations). TFA doesn't mention which Tesla is reporting.
It's not "positive cash flow while being given $465 million" then?
Have you ever used Apple produced software (iTunes, Quicktime, etc.) on Windows? Or noticed their memory requirements on their own OS?
Not that MS is necessarily any better, but, yeah, Apple is one of the Triumvirate of Bloat for consumer software, in my not-so-humble opinion. The sit in their little triangular table with MS and Adobe.
Like 90MB of updates each month for an MP3 player? (itunes) I'm pretty sure that zinf is less than 1/20 that size total, and "just works" (TM)
Just because they can walk a straight line within the sensory limits of the officer doesn't mean there isn't a 5% or 10% reduction in reaction time that can be the difference between life and death in a car.
Then they could just make-up for that disadvantage by fitting >10% better brakes on their car. Are you saying that someone with an less-sporty car should be treated the same as a slightly-intoxicated driver, because they both take slightly more time to stop or steer?
If you login then of course you need a cookie. And using them for stats within one site is not much different to using IP addresses.
While I agree that there a significant benefit in using login cookies, they are not remotely âoenecessaryâ. Java-based servers have had a fantastic technique using a little-known part of the URI shceme where every segment can have parameters. It looks like this:
http://www.example.com/app;sessionid=ABC123DEF456/<whatever>
This allows cookie-like storage in a way that isn't able to be tracked across multiple domains.
great, so every time someone follows a link from your site (or you include an external image) their session key is transmitted via the referer header...
Is there anything more to say than Don't share them between sites?
If you login then of course you need a cookie. And using them for stats within one site is not much different to using IP addresses. But it's when you start including invisible images from a 3rd party site that shares the stats between multiple domains, that most people think crosses the line into creepy surveillance.
Login cookies = fine. Telling one site that you visited another site = not ok.
(or to phrase that another way: don't exploit loopholes in the security system)
I wonder how much clout it would really take to do a multi-technology MVNO that opportunistically selects the cheapest carrier or the one with the best signal, and stops trying to be a "phone company." EVDO, 3G GSM, WiMax, WiFi... all in one handset?
that's exactly what the cellphone companies want to make sure you can't do, so if you want to route calls over wifi or USB on your phone then you'll probably want something like OpenMoko which doesn't impose restrictions on the software you can run.
The Neo only has one SIM card though, so if you want to route over multiple cellphone networks then you might want a phone built in batches of 10 in a garage in hong kong.
p.s. don't forget you can run your own GSM base station and route that over the internet. http://www.gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/OpenBTS
To be superior to a gasoline car, it should have more than half the range of a gasoline powered car, I should think.
interesting idea.
most people I know are happy to take a gasoline car out on a trip while its fuel-warning indicator is lighted
i.e. the reserve on a tank is more than enough for most journeys. a half-tank could take you on holiday and back.
so the half-of-gasoline-tank threshold would actually be a pretty extreme huge amount of storage to put into an electric car (how often do you drive 300 miles without seeing a fuel/recharge station?)
"Yeah, people do snoop and overcharge. It's a fact of life, but it's a fact of life that can get you sued, put in jail, or worse."
Alternatively, they could say that they were doing legitimate police work, where the government expects or requires them to snoop on peoples' PCs?