Not the same problem at all. Nobody should have a copy of your bank card number, so that can be seen as part of the 'secret' number in addition to the PIN code.
FYI, you give away your bank card number every time you use it. At most, I'd call it semi-private.
The personal appeal didn't bug me But that "I'm too cool to shave" look did. If you want money, maybe get a better picture that doesn't scare people away. Maybe getting a good photographer is hard when you don't have any donations?
If you're scared of people with beards, how can you exist with all the neckbeards on/.? You must constantly fear for you life.
Thanks for the links. So far it has all been speculation that this would happen. Though I also heard that names of people like cooperators were actually redacted. Also considering that newsweek article cites only a 'intelligence officer', I'll take it with a grain of salt.
I'd like someone to actually point out to me a record in the leak that has an informant. So far I've only seen conjecture.
The Bandwidth of an analog signal describes how many frequencies are used in transmission. This correlates to the amount of information the signal can transmit. For digital transmission this means a higher bitrate. [...] But I've almost never heard the term used in such a technically correct way, and the term has come to be a synonym of "high bit-rate data connection".
I really don't want to spend the time to look up a better reference than my quoted definition above, so correct me if I'm wrong. However, it is my understanding(and yours, it seems) that 'many frequencies', or multiplexing, like with DSL lines is what 'broadband' defines. So yes, while faster than a single freq modem from back in the day, speed is not the basic definition.
I won't argue that the term has been misused a lot, likely thanks to some marketing departments, but I'd rather not contribute to its watering down.
The point is, "broadband" is a moving target and that target SHOULD be moving upwards.
bzzt, wrong. 'Broadband' is a technical term that does not change in meaning. "[Broadband is] a term used to describe a network that can transmit a wide range of signals, including audio and video. Broadband networks are especially useful in the Networked World, as they can carry many signals at once, resulting in faster data transmission"
Think of it this way - if the gov't had a definition for BigHardDisk that was based on the largest available drive in 1999; a not-so-tech-savvy consumer buys one now, then tries to copy all the erm, 1080p tasteful videos that his buddies have.
No. A better analogy would be if the government had a term of 'BigPipe'. That is a relative term that is subject to interperitation.
My favorite is that the bars and restaurants have a limit of 2 six packs pe trip. Buy two, leave them outside with a buddy, then head back in and buy another two. It's ridiculous.
Total governmental Transparency you want? Please post a link to your tax records.
And why would you think that personal privacy has any comparison at all to governmental transparency? Don't compare the two. One is necessary to a healthy democracy, and the other is personal protection of sensitive information.
"A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives."
-- James Madison "
What does everyone suggest that they would do? Of course they will have to get the one that causes trouble for so many other customers. anyDNS was also being tolerable about it - they told wikileaks they will cease the service for them after 24 hours. During that time all it would had taken from Wikileaks was to change their nameserver records somewhere else. No domain has been taken down.
It's highly recommended to run nameservers on entirely different subnets for reliability against network outages. I'd extend that and say that you may want to consider using entirely different DNS companies.
So in your case, if your DNS provider was being DDOSed, your other nameserver could pick up the slack. In Wikileaks' case, I don't know why they aren't running their own nameservers to begin with.
Good old Slashdotters. They consider airport body scans to be an intolerable abridgment of privacy, yet they see no problem whatsoever with publishing private diplomatic communications because "information wants to be free".
Uppoer body strength isn't going to do it. Gorilla Arm Syndrome will quickly set in, for virtually everybody. In fact, it's kind of like a punishment my mom used to give me when I was a kid, except with encyclopedias piled on.
A lot of these "I want to live forever" statements lack wisdom which usually comes with aging, at some point.
Please explain to me what exactly aging can teach you. I'd say wisdom comes with experience, not aging. Aging in fact destroys what gives you wisdom(your brain).
Amazon has centers around the U.S. because they need to be able to ship something to you quickly no matter where in the U.S. you are.
Traditional stores can easily have product in just one warehouse, possibly even overseas, because deliveries to stores is more regular and far simpler.
Not really. Every major retail chain has regional distribution centers about the size of Amazon's and about just as many(if not more). Just a couple of examples of their competitors:
Why go through every possible event no matter how improbable? Are we going to reduce this conversation to conspiracy theories? If we are, I'd like to throw Antarctic penguins into the ball game. Think about it, no one would suspect them. What exactly do they do every winter when they huddle en mass in the middle of an iceberg for 2 months? Perhaps shielding a laptop and satellite link under the guise of a ridiculous mating ritual?
Highly improbable. Dude, they don't even have thumbs! How are they supposed to carry all that equipment?
OK, Christine's a doof, but that's worse than Frank? Or worse than any of the other sex/bribery scandals R or Ds have been in?
Yes, for fuck's sake, yes! Who honestly gives a shit about sex scandals? I'd rather a totally gay man-whore in office any day than someone too stupid to understand a piece of legislation.
What I think is missed in both the smug, "Daily Show"-type dismissal of the Tea Party & third party movement this cycle and the attacks from both parties is that *despite* the negative publicity and outright hostility shown to these candidates (and their own foot-in-mouth syndrome), people are so annoyed at the traditional parties they are willing to vote for them anyway.
And the 'Tea Party' is not a political party. All of this group's successful candidates are Republicans. O'Donnell is a Republican, don't forget that. She is part of this system you are griping about here. I agree with the intent of your post, but everything you're using to back up your point is unrelated.
As Heinlein pointed out (correctly IMHO), voting without responsibility for the results is sheer madness. If you're not intelligent enough to understand why you're voting, what and who you're voting for, and accept and shoulder the consequences of your decisions, you shouldn't be allowed to vote. It's like driving: bad decisions can lead to bad consequences for a LOT of people. But in voting the consequences are delayed long enough that people don't make the logical connection.
And who gets to decide these qualifications?
Having some ignorant folk vote is much better and conducive to democracy than taking the people's power away from a group using some arbitrary qualifications. If you're not aware how history has totally proven you wrong, please read up on the old literacy tests.
No, it's not a good analogy. We can ramp up nuclear any time we choose.
And we can ramp up oil any time we choose. If you're going to ignore the fiscal and political implications of ramping up nuclear plant construction, I can just as easily ignore the fiscal implications of ramping up oil production.
And why would you ignore that? It's a big part of economics.
Your argument is a bit ill thought out and I'm not sure why you'd bother arguing it. "We could -technically- beat that previous peak, but there is no way in hell it will actually happen due to market forces." I don't see the point in that argument.
Agreed. I grew up 40 minutes outside of a major city, and while in high school the only things to do were drive around aimlessly, waste money on gas, waste money on booze, and talk about how crappy life was. I left the area when I was 19, and I'm currently writing this from my 12th story apartment in the loud, bright, and unpredictable Center City Philadelphia, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
I grew up 2 minutes outside of West Philly and while in high school the only things to do were drive around aimlessly, waste money on gas, waste money on booze, and talk about how crappy life was. I left the area 4 years ago and I'm currently writing this from my log office in the quiet woods in Montana, 27 miles away from the nearest town. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
If what you're saying were true, a state like South Dakota (not even a million people - quite a few less, in fact) or North Dakota (400k?), where I have personally seen drunk Sheriffs, would be close to the top of the list for these things, instead of the bottom
A drunk sherrif was probably the funniest thing I've seen since moving out to small-town Montana. And I can atleast vouch for MT and say the drug of choice here, by far, is alcohol. Meth is a so-so problem but pales in comparison to the level of drunk this state is(not that I'm complaining).
"clean water and untainted women are NOT its strong suit."
AVAILABLE women ARE it's strong suit. If you have a decent job and your own teeth, it's a sexual amusement part.
Enjoy the rides, but don't buy one to own.:)
Depends on where you are. I'm in a town of ~900 and the few girls that are left are taken. Most of the girls grown up and split town for school and/or access to jobs other than ranching or fry cook.
But I shouldn't be restricted from buying some beer on my one day off each week just because a bunch of fundamentalist shitheads think I should be wasting my morning praying to their sun god.
There's another reason. If people buy alcohol on Sunday, that may increase the chance that a lot of people get a hangover on Monday and skip work, or performance plummets, causing economic catastrophe. And unions losing negotiating power, since their people aren't working anyways.
Banning the sale of alcohol on Sunday is not about religion, it's about economic stimulus, and protecting the unions!
Oh yes, because it is so hard to plan on buying your beer on Saturday for football on Sunday. I've lived in PA and I've run into these stupid laws. It has nothing to do with anything other than the fact that Sunday is the Christian sabbath.
Oh, and bars are still open on Sunday which makes it even more retarded. But that's another discussion.
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FYI, you give away your bank card number every time you use it. At most, I'd call it semi-private.
The personal appeal didn't bug me But that "I'm too cool to shave" look did. If you want money, maybe get a better picture that doesn't scare people away. Maybe getting a good photographer is hard when you don't have any donations?
If you're scared of people with beards, how can you exist with all the neckbeards on /.? You must constantly fear for you life.
Thanks for the links. So far it has all been speculation that this would happen. Though I also heard that names of people like cooperators were actually redacted. Also considering that newsweek article cites only a 'intelligence officer', I'll take it with a grain of salt.
I'd like someone to actually point out to me a record in the leak that has an informant. So far I've only seen conjecture.
I really don't want to spend the time to look up a better reference than my quoted definition above, so correct me if I'm wrong. However, it is my understanding(and yours, it seems) that 'many frequencies', or multiplexing, like with DSL lines is what 'broadband' defines. So yes, while faster than a single freq modem from back in the day, speed is not the basic definition.
I won't argue that the term has been misused a lot, likely thanks to some marketing departments, but I'd rather not contribute to its watering down.
So, I guess you never fantasize about anything you wouldn't do in real-life? If so, you have some really boring fantasies.
I looked inside the case of my NAS recently, and didn't see any passwords. Does that mean I am safe?
You obviously aren't looking hard enough.
bzzt, wrong. 'Broadband' is a technical term that does not change in meaning. "[Broadband is] a term used to describe a network that can transmit a wide range of signals, including audio and video. Broadband networks are especially useful in the Networked World, as they can carry many signals at once, resulting in faster data transmission"
No. A better analogy would be if the government had a term of 'BigPipe'. That is a relative term that is subject to interperitation.
My favorite is that the bars and restaurants have a limit of 2 six packs pe trip. Buy two, leave them outside with a buddy, then head back in and buy another two. It's ridiculous.
And why would you think that personal privacy has any comparison at all to governmental transparency? Don't compare the two. One is necessary to a healthy democracy, and the other is personal protection of sensitive information.
"A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives."
-- James Madison "
Actually, I think it will be HIS day in court.
Actually, it will be THEIR day in court. (they both go to court, dude)
What does everyone suggest that they would do? Of course they will have to get the one that causes trouble for so many other customers. anyDNS was also being tolerable about it - they told wikileaks they will cease the service for them after 24 hours. During that time all it would had taken from Wikileaks was to change their nameserver records somewhere else. No domain has been taken down.
It's highly recommended to run nameservers on entirely different subnets for reliability against network outages. I'd extend that and say that you may want to consider using entirely different DNS companies.
So in your case, if your DNS provider was being DDOSed, your other nameserver could pick up the slack. In Wikileaks' case, I don't know why they aren't running their own nameservers to begin with.
Good old Slashdotters. They consider airport body scans to be an intolerable abridgment of privacy, yet they see no problem whatsoever with publishing private diplomatic communications because "information wants to be free".
Personal Privacy != Government Secrecy
Uppoer body strength isn't going to do it. Gorilla Arm Syndrome will quickly set in, for virtually everybody. In fact, it's kind of like a punishment my mom used to give me when I was a kid, except with encyclopedias piled on.
Please explain to me what exactly aging can teach you. I'd say wisdom comes with experience, not aging. Aging in fact destroys what gives you wisdom(your brain).
Amazon has centers around the U.S. because they need to be able to ship something to you quickly no matter where in the U.S. you are.
Traditional stores can easily have product in just one warehouse, possibly even overseas, because deliveries to stores is more regular and far simpler.
Not really. Every major retail chain has regional distribution centers about the size of Amazon's and about just as many(if not more). Just a couple of examples of their competitors:
Highly improbable. Dude, they don't even have thumbs! How are they supposed to carry all that equipment?
How else do you get cat urine without litter or newspaper in it?
A harness, a bowl, and some time?
Yes, for fuck's sake, yes! Who honestly gives a shit about sex scandals? I'd rather a totally gay man-whore in office any day than someone too stupid to understand a piece of legislation.
And the 'Tea Party' is not a political party. All of this group's successful candidates are Republicans. O'Donnell is a Republican, don't forget that. She is part of this system you are griping about here. I agree with the intent of your post, but everything you're using to back up your point is unrelated.
Certainly by not linking to a politically biased blog with known credibility issues.
Could you cite this? FactCheck.org is pretty well respected in its field.
As Heinlein pointed out (correctly IMHO), voting without responsibility for the results is sheer madness. If you're not intelligent enough to understand why you're voting, what and who you're voting for, and accept and shoulder the consequences of your decisions, you shouldn't be allowed to vote. It's like driving: bad decisions can lead to bad consequences for a LOT of people. But in voting the consequences are delayed long enough that people don't make the logical connection.
And who gets to decide these qualifications?
Having some ignorant folk vote is much better and conducive to democracy than taking the people's power away from a group using some arbitrary qualifications. If you're not aware how history has totally proven you wrong, please read up on the old literacy tests.
No, it's not a good analogy. We can ramp up nuclear any time we choose.
And we can ramp up oil any time we choose. If you're going to ignore the fiscal and political implications of ramping up nuclear plant construction, I can just as easily ignore the fiscal implications of ramping up oil production.
And why would you ignore that? It's a big part of economics.
Your argument is a bit ill thought out and I'm not sure why you'd bother arguing it. "We could -technically- beat that previous peak, but there is no way in hell it will actually happen due to market forces." I don't see the point in that argument.
I grew up 2 minutes outside of West Philly and while in high school the only things to do were drive around aimlessly, waste money on gas, waste money on booze, and talk about how crappy life was. I left the area 4 years ago and I'm currently writing this from my log office in the quiet woods in Montana, 27 miles away from the nearest town. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
To each his own.
A drunk sherrif was probably the funniest thing I've seen since moving out to small-town Montana. And I can atleast vouch for MT and say the drug of choice here, by far, is alcohol. Meth is a so-so problem but pales in comparison to the level of drunk this state is(not that I'm complaining).
"clean water and untainted women are NOT its strong suit."
AVAILABLE women ARE it's strong suit. If you have a decent job and your own teeth, it's a sexual amusement part.
Enjoy the rides, but don't buy one to own. :)
Depends on where you are. I'm in a town of ~900 and the few girls that are left are taken. Most of the girls grown up and split town for school and/or access to jobs other than ranching or fry cook.
But I shouldn't be restricted from buying some beer on my one day off each week just because a bunch of fundamentalist shitheads think I should be wasting my morning praying to their sun god.
There's another reason. If people buy alcohol on Sunday, that may increase the chance that a lot of people get a hangover on Monday and skip work, or performance plummets, causing economic catastrophe. And unions losing negotiating power, since their people aren't working anyways.
Banning the sale of alcohol on Sunday is not about religion, it's about economic stimulus, and protecting the unions!
Oh yes, because it is so hard to plan on buying your beer on Saturday for football on Sunday. I've lived in PA and I've run into these stupid laws. It has nothing to do with anything other than the fact that Sunday is the Christian sabbath.
Oh, and bars are still open on Sunday which makes it even more retarded. But that's another discussion.