Free apps with in-app purchases show that fact right under the 'Buy' button. And a simple setting controls whether in-app purchases are allowed at all, require approval, or can go through automatically (default is require approval). And iOS 8 has the proxy stuff for family accounts (parental approval for everything if you want).
How is this Apple 'doing nothing'?
Can purchases still be made for a while (10 minutes? Half an hour?) without reauthenticating? If so then they are still allowing an avenue of unexpected charges.
For example, the child says, "Mommy mommy! I want to add this Free application to my iPad. Can I please please have it?", so the mother thinks to herself that the app is free so what is the harm about logging in to the app store and installing the app on her child's iPad. The app installs and the child is then given the iPad... but for the next X amount of time, the iTunes store holds the authentication for purchases open and the child unwittingly makes a large amount of in-app purchases without needing to authenticate.
(though I have an O(N) vs O(log(N)) question on my interviews that you'd better be able to answer).
(I hire for UI work)
WTF? Really? Why would I need to understand algorithmic complexity when designing a user interface? A user interface is about allowing an end user the ability to manipulate and control the code in a program: giving the user choice, freedom, and empowering them to make a decision.
Algorithmic complexity is something that is either already decided behind the UI or is decided by the user through the UI.
In other words, if you are hiring for UI coding, why are you asking questions about big O notation unless you plan to use the coder/programmer for reasons other than UI?
Hopefully we'll see an end to the insane war on drugs in our lifetime!
No no no! If you are even slightly "high" you can not be pure and one with God. We absolutely MUST fight against the recreational use of chemicals, any chemicals, that might in any way lead to a sense of euphoria. Life is pain. Pain is suffering. It is only through suffering that we can be close to God. Drugs and drug use is absolute evil. We must go to ANY means necessary to prevent their use.
Drugs are made more dangerous by being illegal
Who cares? It is only the evil people that will be affected. It will afflict them with suffering and as we already established, it is only through suffering that we can be close to God.
I don't know why so few of us in the United States didn't learn the lesson from alcohol prohibition.
In the 1920s we did not have Echelon and TIA. The NSA and FBI have it all covered now. You can expect a reinstatement of prohibition rather soon. The only lesson that was learned from Prohibition is that without effective enforcement, the evil sinners will continue to seduce the righteous.
Look, everything is in place for 100% enforcement. All of the sinners will be removed from society so that the righteous will not be distracted from becoming closer to God through suffering. 100% focus on work will ensure that the righteous never stray from the True Path. There will be Heaven on Earth... or Nuclear Apocalypse. It is up to you as to what happens. If you follow the one True Path, there will be pleasure in the afterlife when you have finished toiling and suffering in this fallen world. If you sin, this fallen world will be destroyed so that all may meet their Final Judgement soon.
All of this absurd talk of weakening the battle for your soul is the work of the devil. The fight will not merely continue, it will intensify! The fate of the entire world is at stake.
My apologies John. I was counting Microsoft's ownership from when a Microsoft Executive (Elop) took over Nokia. This is not the standard definition so I will concede that I was wrong when arguing that Microsoft bought a failing phone company.
I explored the Oculus Rift for two weeks and what you are describing fits exactly with what I experienced. The first time I used the Rift, I coudl not keep it on for more than 2 hours. The next day, I had it on for about 8 hours. The strain was so bad that I could not use it at all the following day.
I eventually became "comfortable" with all aspects of the Rift but no matter what, my eyes still felt "odd" after removing the headset. That is why I did not order the future development kit. In theory, it would be awesome... but I am not sure my eyes can handle it. The Rift was a very fun experience but it can not be a day to day experience for extended periods of time for many people.
Except that the response you get from Americans is "well, fuck it, as long as it's someone else's rights, who cares?".
Which more or less forces the rest of the world to decide that the rights of Americans isn't their damned problem. Because the rest of the world doesn't see their rights as secondary to those of Americans.
You know what? I am an American. I can only assume you are not. You are partially correct in your post:
I do not care in the least that my government is spying on you. The reverse of that is that I do not care that your government is spying on ME.
I do care if your government is spying on you. I do care if my government is spying on me.
The laws of your government can not really effect me unless your government invades my home. The laws of my government can not affect you (this appears to be changing somewhat) without invading your home.
I assume your government has laws against your government spying on you. My government has laws against my government spying on me. Sharing information is the same as spying directly with the added charge of conspiracy.
Your government does not have laws about spying on me and my government does not have laws about spying on you. Even if we objected in principal, there is nothing to actually stop each government from spying on another government's citizens other than the governments themselves.
In other words, if you do not want the NSA to spy on you, get your government to do something about it. Mandate secure protocols, invade America, something. Expecting the NSA to not spy on you is absurd on its face. For myself, I think it is a HUGE waste of money for my government to spy on you but that is my only absolute objection to it.
I do object to my government spying on you in a general social sense but I can be easily convinced to not care if there is the slightest whiff of danger to an American citizen and spying on you, a non-American, could alleviate that danger.
And again, the reverse is true. It is not generally considered nice for GCHQ to monitor me while I am visiting Thailand but it is really not a big deal to me if they are... and it is a HUGE waste of their money.
Ultimately, I think pervasive monitoring anywhere anywhen should be outlawed. Now, the people in my government can blackmail or otherwise nefariously influence your government and the reverse is true too. If your government is sweeping up everything about the people in America, your government could dramatically affect political discourse too. Perhaps your government, through pervasive spying, is who decided to take down Eliot Spitzer... this article says no: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
Did you even read the post by Mark Taylor? What he is saying, what Verizon (David Young) is saying, and what you are saying are utterly different things.
Verizon (David Young) is saying that the problem is in L3s network. Verizon's diagram does NOT show what you are saying
Netflix-------> Level3-------> Verizon core network-------> Verizon local CO----(the problem is here)---> remote-------> your house
because in the diagram that Verizon is providing, the area that you say is the problem is all green.
So explain to me why I should believe your analysis over Mark Taylor's analysis (an L3 employee) when you are not directly involved with L3 or Verizon?
I get tired of being the only person on slashdot that understands this...
Perhaps it is because you do not actually understand this...
Come on dude. Censorship is so fucking annoying. An arrogant what?
I know it is five letters long and we can guess that it is disparaging and uncivil but there are no letters to even give a hint. Most of the words that would normally fall in there do not fit: Jackass, asshole, shit, fucker, cunt, etc.
For fucks sake tell us what is hidden behind those god damned stars! Either say what the fuck you mean or don't say it at all.
People will vote themselves entitlements at the expense of future generations. It's the fatal flaw of democracy.
I keep hearing this "meme" being spoken of as a truism and yet in all of my years of voting, I have never had a single chance to vote for an entitlement that would benefit me and take away from my children. I know that my experience may be unique, but I have seen no evidence of that. So where does this come from?
Can you cite any entitlements that I may have been given the chance to vote on? Social Security? No, but that doesn't take away from my children anyways except that the money is being stolen now so that my children will end up paying my benefits... but I have no chance to affect the theft. Health care? I am unsure how this would fit. Please cite chances that I have missed concerning voting entitlements for myself at the expense of my children.
They bought a failing phone company for their hardware, turned out walled garden phones, and nobody showed up.
Say WHAT?! Nokia was a FAILING phone company when Microsoft bought them? What planet are you on? They were THE dominant phone company at the time. Samsung and Apple were barely even nudging the market with their offerings yet; although Apple was indeed on a steep rise at the time and the Galaxy S was just released which rocketed Samsung upwards.
No, Nokia had some issues that they needed to work through but they were definitely not a failing phone manufacturing company when Microsoft bought them. Microsoft drove them into the ground at high speed.
And no, I am NOT a Nokia fan boy. I did like an N800 that I had bought but could not stand the resistive rather than capacitive touch screen.
No longer solved, especially if you are classified as Exempt.
monopolistic behavior
AT&T was broken up... and yet it is back again. Microsoft?
The ones that are still more or less enforced are: child labor acid rain slavery (perhaps not with H1B folks not being allowed to switch employers!) worker safety consumer protection (payday loans and enforced monopolies like ISPs kind of argue against this) clean air and water (There was a situation in Texas relatively recently about a company dumping blood into a river but for the most part, correct)
Of course, the FBI has way too many people that need to deal with technology that really don't understand it in the slightest. Years ago I had to disappoint an FBI agent that I was helping by explaining to him how things really worked. He was getting samples from all the different printers so that they could make a database to identify what printer printed something like they used to do with typewriters. I had to explain to him that the fonts are totally programmable and have no unique characteristics to that printer. Also, that the inks and toners are actually made by only a handful of companies, and are again, not unique to the printer. He was very disappointing with the information.
Perhaps you should have told him about the yellow dots:
How do I not go over there and smash them? I would just love if they would stop coming over here and smashing here (i.e. with rockets). Who would I go over and smash?
Yeah. That would be best. Them stop lobbing rockets and such; however, that is never going to stop with the current status quo. Something needs to change. What that something is, is totally irrelevant the question that I asked from a personal point of view.
To answer my question to you, I would do it in a Biblical manner: I would kill all males of combat age and slay all non-virgin women. I would keep the rest as slaves.
Not politically correct for this day and age? The whole situation over there is straight out of prehistory and should be solved that way. The Israelis want to tear down Palestinian owned buildings? The Palestinians, as the weaker group, should send rockets back. Should this state of affairs be tolerated? No. One side or the other needs to crush the other side until there is peace. Or, one side has to make zero aggressive moves for long enough (5 years?) that it is demonstrable to anyone who is unbiased that one side is clearly abusing the other. At that point, we get back to the Biblical solution but without fingers being pointed.
I can understand if you do not feel like answering freely in a public forum. It is a highly charged situation and you are in the center of it. I personally do not care in the slightest if everyone assumes that I am a bloodthirsty monster or an asshole. I speak truth instead of hiding behind weasel words so I do not have to defend myself. The situation over there is just insane and political correctness does not seem to solve it.
The nature of this particular question seems very naive. I suppose that you haven't been shot at much!
Hm. I would guess his question should be interpreted as: How accurate do the rockets seem to be?
But on to what I want to ask you:
I have had rockets and mortars fired at and land near enough to me that I could hear the air moving around the outside of the mortar casing and feel the pressure wave from the rocket. Scary stuff. I lasted two and a half years under such a bombardment and I then I had to leave or weird things would have irreversible in my brain. That makes me ask this: How can you sit there and take it without just going over to Gaza and smashing them until they become peaceful? I ask this on a personal level as I know the answer on a political level.
So I happen to not physically be in America and I was not aware that paracetamol and acetaminophen are the same thing when the doctor asks me if I have taken any Panadol (what? Paracetamol)... so I say no and he proceeds to start pumping a thousand milligrams plus directly into my veins. Yeah, but I had taken Tylenol and some cold medications, which combined, had placed over a thousand milligrams of acetaminophen into my system previously. A thousand milligrams of acetaminophen here, a thousand milligrams of paracetamol there. Another thousand in rounding errors and a continuous drip into my veins... Who cares right?
Needless to say, my liver goes, "WTF dude?" and 6 months of hell proceed to occur. Some Milk Thistle and time allowed everything to more or less return to normal.
Yeah. It should be illegal to put that shit into ANY product other than one distinctly labelled as acetaminophen aka paracetamol. It should not be labelled Cold Medicine or Cough Medicine, or Muscle Relaxer or whatever the fuck else. That stuff is DANGEROUS. I do not want to have a liver transplant merely because of differing naming conventions and added ingredients.
No no no! It was not a comeuppance and you should not feel smitten. It was just a friendly helpful reminder. BTW, your point in your original post was perfectly valid and I agree with it.:)
Hm. I am going to have to disagree with you there. A false sense of security can be gleaned from such data; however, a false sense of security can be had from NO information at all. A false sense of security is a failing in the security practitioner, not a result of the data. For example, let's say someone has done this analysis and thinks they are secure and then reads your comment. They then know the limitations of what their data can expose and can continue to look for more subtle traces leading to discovery of more sophisticated agents operating within their systems.
A false sense of security is in essence another formulation of what I call the arrogance problem. Always keep your mind open to new ideas and interpretations and you can avoid this issue more often than not. I hope you did not get modded down for displaying a potential problem. You were a bit harsh but skins should not be thin here.
To be fair, it is always good to eliminate the obvious first. Stopping there is stupid, but starting there is good.
LOL, I hate to be pedantic but I LOVE cars. Lamborghini is not a car, they are a manufacturer. They have several models, some are over a million, some can be had for slightly under 200k if you look carefully.
Bugatti makes a Veyron, not a Veryon. Current models are going for over 1.5m IIRC. Easy typo to make but it is what put me into pedantic mode. The market share thing with a model and then just a manufacturer is what threw it over the edge. Nothing personal. We all do silly things like that. I probably made a few mistakes that pedants can get me for in my correction of your post.:P
Yup! In 7th grade Geography class. The very first period we covered it started with how to properly unfold and fold it. Then we went on to the symbols and what they meant, etc etc. We also learned that all Interstate Highways that are North/South are odd numbers and East/West are even numbers so if you are in I40, you are heading either in an easterly or westerly direction and if you are on I55, north or south.
Of course that moved on to other map types such as mercator projections, topography maps, and such. What do they teach in schools nowadays? How to install Google Maps onto your Android phone?
Weird. I just asked one of my coworkers who is roughly the same age as me and he never had a Geography class. WTF? I had been under the impression that Geography was common pretty much across America.
Even the clueless will be ripping this stuff out of their walls pronto once the (obviously irresistible) media sideshows get started.
No. No they won't. The clueless will think they are in control of the information flow when in fact, they are not. All of that information will leave their house and reside on someone else's (else's is not a word Firefox? Really? Let's check: http://english.stackexchange.c... stupid Firefox telling me I am wrong.) servers. Once it is on someone else's (fuck you Firefox) server, the clueless no longer control their data regardless of what laws are in place. That data will be used.
But being clueless, they won't understand. Just like they do not understand the NSA domestic surveillance.
I lived even further away than you. Denver. We did not feel anything but we ended up having about an eighth of an inch of ash covering our cars. I am certain of this because I had to clean it off.
I can only imagine what Yellowstone going off is going to be like. I suspect cleaning of cars in Denver is going to be the least of the problems there.
This is all funny to me. I have been vaccinated 4 times for smallpox. Once as a child (thank you modern medicine!) and three times in the past decade (thank god for wiped databases:( ).
Every single time it has left a permanent scar as your post says. Every single time in the past decade, it has made me feel like crap for at least a week, sometimes two weeks. Every single time, dealing with a live virus on the skin has been a HUGE pain in the ass. Thankfully, I have never had any actual severe adverse reactions. I will probably get vaccinated again soon though. Wheeeeeee. Here is hoping that incompetence does not kill me through overzealous vaccinations.:P
I guess I should be happy that it is probably literally impossible to kill me with known biological agents... but sometimes, the cure is almost as bad as the disease.
Ah yes, it is not the boyfriend's fault, he has no control over his actions.
Huh? It is ENTIRELY her boyfriend's fault. He tied her up, pulled off all of her clothes and forced her at gunpoint to pose for those pictures. She has no responsiblity at all in this situation.
See how stupid it looks to try and shoehorn in blame games where they do not belong?
Yes, the boyfriend who shared those pics is a dick. Criminal? I am not a lawyer, but definitely a dick. Guess what? He would have never had those pics if she did not consent to taking them or giving them to him. That implies that she has a part to play in this too. Is defining the parts such a problem for you or is everything a crime against women who are always just helpless victims and deserve all of your stuff when they decide to leave you after a relationship?
Look man, this is getting old. Yes, living in your fantasy world would be great. I will be helping to build the possibility that such a world exists because I want to get there too. BUT
Calling them "the motivated" is a fallacy out of the gate. It has naught to do with motivation, and everything to do with them being criminals by the standards of the society.
Is where all of this started. I merely wanted clarification on WHO you meant as being criminals. Apparently, it is everyone who makes more than they need. I disagree strongly. Everyone who creates their wealth is NOT a criminal, even if it is infinitely more than what they need.
The majority of the resources in the world are tied up by a very small "group" of people. This causes problems as there are almost no resources left for others. This is not an "earned" thing. It is a theft by power thing. As such, I would agree with you calling them criminals; however, at that level, we are no longer talking about street level morality, we are talking more "law of the jungle" type stuff. The street level morality stuff is to keep us from getting together and taking the resources back from them.
If you want to steal from Johnny Depp or Warren Buffet, you are a moron. They earned their money. They created their wealth. You are directly harming the world by taking from them.
If you want to steal from the Bush Family (as a valid example) then you are smart. They stole 3 trillion dollars and collapsed the Savings and Loan industry (yes Neil, I remember even if you can pay to have people scrub your name from history). They are liars and thieves... and relatively small ones at that!
Honestly, there is no simple and easy answer, such as stealing back from the Bush Family. Ultimately, it is about power and control. There is a drive within most everyone to be absolute ruler of the world. Some people are fairly close to achieving that; others, not so much. Some are not even trying. Regardless, when focusing on control, other things such as fairness and equality are nowhere to be found, which is the situation we find ourselves in currently. That is why despite the wealth of the world increasing in a jaw dropping manner, very few people get to actually see or touch that wealth. 35 billion dollars? LOL, chump change.
What is funny is that the bank accounts of these people who would control the world are all relatively small. 200m in visible wealth is an abnormality. Who needs money when you control trillions of dollars worth of resources and industry? Who needs to buy a personal jet when you own a controlling interest in a company that owns a dozen or more jets? Ownership of such trinkets is considered a sign of being one of the "hired help".
In short, you have no idea what you are fighting against. You sense inequality, see some wealth, and attack... not realizing that the wealth that you are attacking is legitimately earned. You think you are helping the world but in reality, you are an agent of evil, working towards the enslavement of humanity. All for something good, yes. But enslavement nevertheless.
Meh. I am done with this. I will not respond any further. Have a nice day.:)
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Free apps with in-app purchases show that fact right under the 'Buy' button. And a simple setting controls whether in-app purchases are allowed at all, require approval, or can go through automatically (default is require approval). And iOS 8 has the proxy stuff for family accounts (parental approval for everything if you want).
How is this Apple 'doing nothing'?
Can purchases still be made for a while (10 minutes? Half an hour?) without reauthenticating? If so then they are still allowing an avenue of unexpected charges.
For example, the child says, "Mommy mommy! I want to add this Free application to my iPad. Can I please please have it?", so the mother thinks to herself that the app is free so what is the harm about logging in to the app store and installing the app on her child's iPad. The app installs and the child is then given the iPad... but for the next X amount of time, the iTunes store holds the authentication for purchases open and the child unwittingly makes a large amount of in-app purchases without needing to authenticate.
(though I have an O(N) vs O(log(N)) question on my interviews that you'd better be able to answer).
(I hire for UI work)
WTF? Really? Why would I need to understand algorithmic complexity when designing a user interface? A user interface is about allowing an end user the ability to manipulate and control the code in a program: giving the user choice, freedom, and empowering them to make a decision.
Algorithmic complexity is something that is either already decided behind the UI or is decided by the user through the UI.
In other words, if you are hiring for UI coding, why are you asking questions about big O notation unless you plan to use the coder/programmer for reasons other than UI?
Hopefully we'll see an end to the insane war on drugs in our lifetime!
No no no! If you are even slightly "high" you can not be pure and one with God. We absolutely MUST fight against the recreational use of chemicals, any chemicals, that might in any way lead to a sense of euphoria. Life is pain. Pain is suffering. It is only through suffering that we can be close to God. Drugs and drug use is absolute evil. We must go to ANY means necessary to prevent their use.
Drugs are made more dangerous by being illegal
Who cares? It is only the evil people that will be affected. It will afflict them with suffering and as we already established, it is only through suffering that we can be close to God.
I don't know why so few of us in the United States didn't learn the lesson from alcohol prohibition.
In the 1920s we did not have Echelon and TIA. The NSA and FBI have it all covered now. You can expect a reinstatement of prohibition rather soon. The only lesson that was learned from Prohibition is that without effective enforcement, the evil sinners will continue to seduce the righteous.
Look, everything is in place for 100% enforcement. All of the sinners will be removed from society so that the righteous will not be distracted from becoming closer to God through suffering. 100% focus on work will ensure that the righteous never stray from the True Path. There will be Heaven on Earth... or Nuclear Apocalypse. It is up to you as to what happens. If you follow the one True Path, there will be pleasure in the afterlife when you have finished toiling and suffering in this fallen world. If you sin, this fallen world will be destroyed so that all may meet their Final Judgement soon.
All of this absurd talk of weakening the battle for your soul is the work of the devil. The fight will not merely continue, it will intensify! The fate of the entire world is at stake.
My apologies John. I was counting Microsoft's ownership from when a Microsoft Executive (Elop) took over Nokia. This is not the standard definition so I will concede that I was wrong when arguing that Microsoft bought a failing phone company.
Dave
I explored the Oculus Rift for two weeks and what you are describing fits exactly with what I experienced. The first time I used the Rift, I coudl not keep it on for more than 2 hours. The next day, I had it on for about 8 hours. The strain was so bad that I could not use it at all the following day.
I eventually became "comfortable" with all aspects of the Rift but no matter what, my eyes still felt "odd" after removing the headset. That is why I did not order the future development kit. In theory, it would be awesome... but I am not sure my eyes can handle it. The Rift was a very fun experience but it can not be a day to day experience for extended periods of time for many people.
Ah. Thank you. It was driving me nuts trying to figure out what to put in there.
Really, you should just say what you mean and be honest about it. Censorship is just wrong even when it is not intended to be evil.
I apologize if I offended you with my previous response filled with vulgarity. The vulgarity was an intentional device but not meant to offend.
Except that the response you get from Americans is "well, fuck it, as long as it's someone else's rights, who cares?".
Which more or less forces the rest of the world to decide that the rights of Americans isn't their damned problem. Because the rest of the world doesn't see their rights as secondary to those of Americans.
You know what? I am an American. I can only assume you are not. You are partially correct in your post:
I do not care in the least that my government is spying on you. The reverse of that is that I do not care that your government is spying on ME.
I do care if your government is spying on you. I do care if my government is spying on me.
The laws of your government can not really effect me unless your government invades my home. The laws of my government can not affect you (this appears to be changing somewhat) without invading your home.
I assume your government has laws against your government spying on you. My government has laws against my government spying on me. Sharing information is the same as spying directly with the added charge of conspiracy.
Your government does not have laws about spying on me and my government does not have laws about spying on you. Even if we objected in principal, there is nothing to actually stop each government from spying on another government's citizens other than the governments themselves.
In other words, if you do not want the NSA to spy on you, get your government to do something about it. Mandate secure protocols, invade America, something. Expecting the NSA to not spy on you is absurd on its face. For myself, I think it is a HUGE waste of money for my government to spy on you but that is my only absolute objection to it.
I do object to my government spying on you in a general social sense but I can be easily convinced to not care if there is the slightest whiff of danger to an American citizen and spying on you, a non-American, could alleviate that danger.
And again, the reverse is true. It is not generally considered nice for GCHQ to monitor me while I am visiting Thailand but it is really not a big deal to me if they are... and it is a HUGE waste of their money.
Ultimately, I think pervasive monitoring anywhere anywhen should be outlawed. Now, the people in my government can blackmail or otherwise nefariously influence your government and the reverse is true too. If your government is sweeping up everything about the people in America, your government could dramatically affect political discourse too. Perhaps your government, through pervasive spying, is who decided to take down Eliot Spitzer... this article says no: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
But you see my point, yes?
Did you even read the post by Mark Taylor? What he is saying, what Verizon (David Young) is saying, and what you are saying are utterly different things.
Verizon (David Young) is saying that the problem is in L3s network. Verizon's diagram does NOT show what you are saying
Netflix-------> Level3-------> Verizon core network-------> Verizon local CO----(the problem is here)---> remote-------> your house
because in the diagram that Verizon is providing, the area that you say is the problem is all green.
So explain to me why I should believe your analysis over Mark Taylor's analysis (an L3 employee) when you are not directly involved with L3 or Verizon?
I get tired of being the only person on slashdot that understands this...
Perhaps it is because you do not actually understand this...
What an arrogant *****.
Come on dude. Censorship is so fucking annoying.
An arrogant what?
I know it is five letters long and we can guess that it is disparaging and uncivil but there are no letters to even give a hint. Most of the words that would normally fall in there do not fit: Jackass, asshole, shit, fucker, cunt, etc.
For fucks sake tell us what is hidden behind those god damned stars! Either say what the fuck you mean or don't say it at all.
People will vote themselves entitlements at the expense of future generations. It's the fatal flaw of democracy.
I keep hearing this "meme" being spoken of as a truism and yet in all of my years of voting, I have never had a single chance to vote for an entitlement that would benefit me and take away from my children. I know that my experience may be unique, but I have seen no evidence of that. So where does this come from?
Can you cite any entitlements that I may have been given the chance to vote on? Social Security? No, but that doesn't take away from my children anyways except that the money is being stolen now so that my children will end up paying my benefits... but I have no chance to affect the theft. Health care? I am unsure how this would fit. Please cite chances that I have missed concerning voting entitlements for myself at the expense of my children.
They bought a failing phone company for their hardware, turned out walled garden phones, and nobody showed up.
Say WHAT?! Nokia was a FAILING phone company when Microsoft bought them? What planet are you on? They were THE dominant phone company at the time. Samsung and Apple were barely even nudging the market with their offerings yet; although Apple was indeed on a steep rise at the time and the Galaxy S was just released which rocketed Samsung upwards.
No, Nokia had some issues that they needed to work through but they were definitely not a failing phone manufacturing company when Microsoft bought them. Microsoft drove them into the ground at high speed.
And no, I am NOT a Nokia fan boy. I did like an N800 that I had bought but could not stand the resistive rather than capacitive touch screen.
40 hour work week
No longer solved, especially if you are classified as Exempt.
monopolistic behavior
AT&T was broken up... and yet it is back again. Microsoft?
The ones that are still more or less enforced are:
child labor
acid rain
slavery (perhaps not with H1B folks not being allowed to switch employers!)
worker safety
consumer protection (payday loans and enforced monopolies like ISPs kind of argue against this)
clean air and water (There was a situation in Texas relatively recently about a company dumping blood into a river but for the most part, correct)
Of course, the FBI has way too many people that need to deal with technology that really don't understand it in the slightest. Years ago I had to disappoint an FBI agent that I was helping by explaining to him how things really worked. He was getting samples from all the different printers so that they could make a database to identify what printer printed something like they used to do with typewriters. I had to explain to him that the fonts are totally programmable and have no unique characteristics to that printer. Also, that the inks and toners are actually made by only a handful of companies, and are again, not unique to the printer. He was very disappointing with the information.
Perhaps you should have told him about the yellow dots:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
I am surprised he did not know.
How do I not go over there and smash them? I would just love if they would stop coming over here and smashing here (i.e. with rockets). Who would I go over and smash?
Yeah. That would be best. Them stop lobbing rockets and such; however, that is never going to stop with the current status quo. Something needs to change. What that something is, is totally irrelevant the question that I asked from a personal point of view.
To answer my question to you, I would do it in a Biblical manner: I would kill all males of combat age and slay all non-virgin women. I would keep the rest as slaves.
Not politically correct for this day and age? The whole situation over there is straight out of prehistory and should be solved that way. The Israelis want to tear down Palestinian owned buildings? The Palestinians, as the weaker group, should send rockets back. Should this state of affairs be tolerated? No. One side or the other needs to crush the other side until there is peace. Or, one side has to make zero aggressive moves for long enough (5 years?) that it is demonstrable to anyone who is unbiased that one side is clearly abusing the other. At that point, we get back to the Biblical solution but without fingers being pointed.
I can understand if you do not feel like answering freely in a public forum. It is a highly charged situation and you are in the center of it. I personally do not care in the slightest if everyone assumes that I am a bloodthirsty monster or an asshole. I speak truth instead of hiding behind weasel words so I do not have to defend myself. The situation over there is just insane and political correctness does not seem to solve it.
The nature of this particular question seems very naive. I suppose that you haven't been shot at much!
Hm. I would guess his question should be interpreted as: How accurate do the rockets seem to be?
But on to what I want to ask you:
I have had rockets and mortars fired at and land near enough to me that I could hear the air moving around the outside of the mortar casing and feel the pressure wave from the rocket. Scary stuff. I lasted two and a half years under such a bombardment and I then I had to leave or weird things would have irreversible in my brain. That makes me ask this: How can you sit there and take it without just going over to Gaza and smashing them until they become peaceful? I ask this on a personal level as I know the answer on a political level.
It is even worse than what you think it is:
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So I happen to not physically be in America and I was not aware that paracetamol and acetaminophen are the same thing when the doctor asks me if I have taken any Panadol (what? Paracetamol)... so I say no and he proceeds to start pumping a thousand milligrams plus directly into my veins. Yeah, but I had taken Tylenol and some cold medications, which combined, had placed over a thousand milligrams of acetaminophen into my system previously. A thousand milligrams of acetaminophen here, a thousand milligrams of paracetamol there. Another thousand in rounding errors and a continuous drip into my veins... Who cares right?
Needless to say, my liver goes, "WTF dude?" and 6 months of hell proceed to occur. Some Milk Thistle and time allowed everything to more or less return to normal.
Yeah. It should be illegal to put that shit into ANY product other than one distinctly labelled as acetaminophen aka paracetamol. It should not be labelled Cold Medicine or Cough Medicine, or Muscle Relaxer or whatever the fuck else. That stuff is DANGEROUS. I do not want to have a liver transplant merely because of differing naming conventions and added ingredients.
Suitably smitten, I accept my comeuppance!
No no no! It was not a comeuppance and you should not feel smitten. It was just a friendly helpful reminder. BTW, your point in your original post was perfectly valid and I agree with it. :)
Hm. I am going to have to disagree with you there. A false sense of security can be gleaned from such data; however, a false sense of security can be had from NO information at all. A false sense of security is a failing in the security practitioner, not a result of the data. For example, let's say someone has done this analysis and thinks they are secure and then reads your comment. They then know the limitations of what their data can expose and can continue to look for more subtle traces leading to discovery of more sophisticated agents operating within their systems.
A false sense of security is in essence another formulation of what I call the arrogance problem. Always keep your mind open to new ideas and interpretations and you can avoid this issue more often than not. I hope you did not get modded down for displaying a potential problem. You were a bit harsh but skins should not be thin here.
To be fair, it is always good to eliminate the obvious first. Stopping there is stupid, but starting there is good.
LOL, I hate to be pedantic but I LOVE cars. Lamborghini is not a car, they are a manufacturer. They have several models, some are over a million, some can be had for slightly under 200k if you look carefully.
Bugatti makes a Veyron, not a Veryon. Current models are going for over 1.5m IIRC. Easy typo to make but it is what put me into pedantic mode. The market share thing with a model and then just a manufacturer is what threw it over the edge. Nothing personal. We all do silly things like that. I probably made a few mistakes that pedants can get me for in my correction of your post. :P
Have a nice day. Heheh. :)
They taught map reading in school?
Yup! In 7th grade Geography class. The very first period we covered it started with how to properly unfold and fold it. Then we went on to the symbols and what they meant, etc etc. We also learned that all Interstate Highways that are North/South are odd numbers and East/West are even numbers so if you are in I40, you are heading either in an easterly or westerly direction and if you are on I55, north or south.
Of course that moved on to other map types such as mercator projections, topography maps, and such. What do they teach in schools nowadays? How to install Google Maps onto your Android phone?
Weird. I just asked one of my coworkers who is roughly the same age as me and he never had a Geography class. WTF? I had been under the impression that Geography was common pretty much across America.
Even the clueless will be ripping this stuff out of their walls pronto once the (obviously irresistible) media sideshows get started.
No. No they won't. The clueless will think they are in control of the information flow when in fact, they are not. All of that information will leave their house and reside on someone else's (else's is not a word Firefox? Really? Let's check: http://english.stackexchange.c... stupid Firefox telling me I am wrong.) servers. Once it is on someone else's (fuck you Firefox) server, the clueless no longer control their data regardless of what laws are in place. That data will be used.
But being clueless, they won't understand. Just like they do not understand the NSA domestic surveillance.
I lived even further away than you. Denver. We did not feel anything but we ended up having about an eighth of an inch of ash covering our cars. I am certain of this because I had to clean it off.
I can only imagine what Yellowstone going off is going to be like. I suspect cleaning of cars in Denver is going to be the least of the problems there.
This is all funny to me. I have been vaccinated 4 times for smallpox. Once as a child (thank you modern medicine!) and three times in the past decade (thank god for wiped databases :( ).
Every single time it has left a permanent scar as your post says. Every single time in the past decade, it has made me feel like crap for at least a week, sometimes two weeks. Every single time, dealing with a live virus on the skin has been a HUGE pain in the ass. Thankfully, I have never had any actual severe adverse reactions. I will probably get vaccinated again soon though. Wheeeeeee. Here is hoping that incompetence does not kill me through overzealous vaccinations. :P
I guess I should be happy that it is probably literally impossible to kill me with known biological agents... but sometimes, the cure is almost as bad as the disease.
Ah yes, it is not the boyfriend's fault, he has no control over his actions.
Huh? It is ENTIRELY her boyfriend's fault. He tied her up, pulled off all of her clothes and forced her at gunpoint to pose for those pictures. She has no responsiblity at all in this situation.
See how stupid it looks to try and shoehorn in blame games where they do not belong?
Yes, the boyfriend who shared those pics is a dick. Criminal? I am not a lawyer, but definitely a dick. Guess what? He would have never had those pics if she did not consent to taking them or giving them to him. That implies that she has a part to play in this too. Is defining the parts such a problem for you or is everything a crime against women who are always just helpless victims and deserve all of your stuff when they decide to leave you after a relationship?
Rock on.
Look man, this is getting old. Yes, living in your fantasy world would be great. I will be helping to build the possibility that such a world exists because I want to get there too. BUT
Calling them "the motivated" is a fallacy out of the gate. It has naught to do with motivation, and everything to do with them being criminals by the standards of the society.
Is where all of this started. I merely wanted clarification on WHO you meant as being criminals. Apparently, it is everyone who makes more than they need. I disagree strongly. Everyone who creates their wealth is NOT a criminal, even if it is infinitely more than what they need.
The majority of the resources in the world are tied up by a very small "group" of people. This causes problems as there are almost no resources left for others. This is not an "earned" thing. It is a theft by power thing. As such, I would agree with you calling them criminals; however, at that level, we are no longer talking about street level morality, we are talking more "law of the jungle" type stuff. The street level morality stuff is to keep us from getting together and taking the resources back from them.
If you want to steal from Johnny Depp or Warren Buffet, you are a moron. They earned their money. They created their wealth. You are directly harming the world by taking from them.
If you want to steal from the Bush Family (as a valid example) then you are smart. They stole 3 trillion dollars and collapsed the Savings and Loan industry (yes Neil, I remember even if you can pay to have people scrub your name from history). They are liars and thieves... and relatively small ones at that!
Honestly, there is no simple and easy answer, such as stealing back from the Bush Family. Ultimately, it is about power and control. There is a drive within most everyone to be absolute ruler of the world. Some people are fairly close to achieving that; others, not so much. Some are not even trying. Regardless, when focusing on control, other things such as fairness and equality are nowhere to be found, which is the situation we find ourselves in currently. That is why despite the wealth of the world increasing in a jaw dropping manner, very few people get to actually see or touch that wealth. 35 billion dollars? LOL, chump change.
What is funny is that the bank accounts of these people who would control the world are all relatively small. 200m in visible wealth is an abnormality. Who needs money when you control trillions of dollars worth of resources and industry? Who needs to buy a personal jet when you own a controlling interest in a company that owns a dozen or more jets? Ownership of such trinkets is considered a sign of being one of the "hired help".
In short, you have no idea what you are fighting against. You sense inequality, see some wealth, and attack... not realizing that the wealth that you are attacking is legitimately earned. You think you are helping the world but in reality, you are an agent of evil, working towards the enslavement of humanity. All for something good, yes. But enslavement nevertheless.
Meh. I am done with this. I will not respond any further. Have a nice day. :)