Don't you see that by mixing advertisement with content you are casting doubt on *every single* story posted? You had a great thing but you're killing it.
Who thought this would a good idea? How dumb are the corporate owners?
If this goes on, I'm going to start using those threads to list as many slashdot alternatives as possible. There many good sites out there looking for active commenters.
Watch how mods are going to help your audience leave your site.
- Because posting something you consider private on facebook (aka publishing it on the Internet) is stupid and careless
- Because facebook employees have unrestricted access to your account
- Because it will be hard if not impossible to *actually* remove your information from their servers and backups
- Because facebook contracts moderating content to outsourcing firms and everything you post there risks being reviewed by an under-vetted, unfulfilled person on a dollar an hour in an internet café in Marrakech.
This is for all you "If you haven't done anything wrong, what do you have to hide?" and "You're one in a million, nobody cares about your insignificant neck-beard life" apologists: Don't you see why it is bad that all that private information is aggregated and under the control of a single entity? Even if it is done with reasonable safeguards and the best of intentions, which is definitely not the case with facebook, the simple fact that all this information exists online, tied to your real name, means that the potential for abuse is immense. And this is time it's not even facebook doing the abusing and profiteering, it's just an external third party.
And when you've been unemployed for a substantial amount of time and you are desperate for a job, who has more power over you than a potential employer?
Give up your privacy, pledge allegiance to your employer. Don't you love the neofeudalist world we live in?
They caught him about 8 months ago. He has allegedly been an informant since then, which must have given him more than enough time to ponder on how he got caught.
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or pretty soon there won't be any debate
What do you mean "pretty soon"?
There is currently no meaningful debate in American politics, only posturing on superficial or social issues and very strong bi-partisan agreement on:
- Less civil liberties, more state surveillance (NDAA, warrantless wiretapping etc.)
- Interventionist foreign policy, supported by an over-sized military-industrial complex
- Unconditional support for Wall Street (no meaningful regulation)
- Corporate interests always take precedence/outweigh individual citizens' rights and well being
- A political system with a high barrier of entry (unchecked campaign spending, no representation for small parties)
Coming soon to a corporate network near you : SureView Enterprise.
If a worker acts like a potential human, sending a personal email, visiting an unregistered website or trying to conduct union activities on site, the analyst might push a button and watch a screen video of the officer's last hour of work. Once a case is made that something might be imminent, it is checkmate: the worker is thwarted.
How about a phone that can use two SIM cards at the same time? So we can actually make carriers compete against each other. This is a feature that Android is sorely lacking.
What, carriers don't want any features that might actually empowers their consumers or helps them get away from the "subsidized" (aka bought on credit) phone handset scam? Not to mention, having multiple plans or prepaid SIM cards is also a great way to dramatically cut international roaming costs.
Remember the technologically advanced 90s? Phones used to have that feature back then.
Remember kids, raising taxes on the rich is class warfare! But lowering their taxes is "incentivizing job creation" and "stimulating the economy".
Funny how class warfare is such a one way street to the right. For some reason it's never class warfare when "job creators" lobby federal and state officials to end all the ground gained by organized labor since the industrial revolution.
Extra judiciary domain seizures, extradition of foreign citizens for crimes not committed in the US... ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is either corrupt or completely out of control. They must be reigned in.
In the mean time, it's great that they have the situation at the Mexican border under control, gives them more time to be innovative in the war against piracy (keep going guys, you're so close to winning that one).
The problem in your example is not advertisement, it's a repressive religion that exert way too much social control over its followers and that punishes and ostracize people based on imaginary crimes.
In other words, loss of privacy for advertising sake, while definitely wrong, is still a lesser evil than religious fundamentalism.
Similar to how pornography reduced sex crimes in Japan
I think we have to be very careful when comparing crime statistics between countries (a well known problem in criminology) and this is especially true with sex crimes. Crime statistics only reflects what has been reported and processed as an actual crime by the system, depending in which country you live this may accurately reflect reality or be completely off.
Things are getting better now but the police in Japan is know for their very poor handling of sex crime victims. This alone greatly affects how many crimes are being reported. Then there are cultural factors that may also lead victims not to report crimes in order to avoid the social consequences of being victimized. Japan being a more group-oriented society than the west, the incentive not to report to "avoid causing troubles" is also stronger. This is a highly political matter since properly taking care of victims and helping them report abuse will actually make the crime rate go *up*. Which would be a very positive outcome for society but a disastrous one for the politician taking that decision.
Does pornography reduce sex crimes? I don't know. I strongly believe it does, but that's just my sentiment.
Why does it matter? If someone is not terminally ill then they shouldn't be allowed to chose how and when to end their life? Because of what?
I'm sorry if I misunderstood you, but it sounds like your saying "Sorry, your sickness is not terminal, it will only guarantee you a life time of horrible debilitating suffering, you'll understand of course that society can't help you end your life, that would be immoral, please grin and bear it, we've determined it's the right thing to do."
That we like the way pixel art looks in the first place!
This project is technically interesting but as art it completely misses the point. Not every piece of human creation needs to be updated, upscaled, "improved" and redone.
This sounds like a ploy to harvest phone numbers from well meaning (if ill informed) users who care about security and who previously hadn't surrendered their phone number to facebook.
Is there a valid reason for not offering the same service via email? Using, you know, the email address that facebook already has on record.
I just what to know how well XBMC for linux runs on this thing now that full access to the hardware is possible (I don't own a PS3... yet).
The XBMC team has stated numerous times that they aren't interested in supporting XBMC on a hacked platform anymore, but this is different since we might be able to run the vanilla linux version on it (and if any optimization is required for it to run smoothly, maybe it can be done at the OS level - outside of XMBC).
Isn't it interesting that social media and modern technology have done more for the desire for democratization than most of our cold-war efforts ever did?
It is interesting.
However if you think that the Cold war was about democratization you're completely deluded. The cold war was two superpower having at it. The west supported whoever was against the soviet side (Containment and Trueman doctrine), including many dictators and autocrats (not to mention our "freedom fighter" friends in Afghanistan). The Cold war has never been about democracy, it was an empire struggle.
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Windows RT : as in... Windows Russia Today?
Don't you see that by mixing advertisement with content you are casting doubt on *every single* story posted? You had a great thing but you're killing it.
Who thought this would a good idea? How dumb are the corporate owners?
If this goes on, I'm going to start using those threads to list as many slashdot alternatives as possible. There many good sites out there looking for active commenters.
Watch how mods are going to help your audience leave your site.
Let me guess: You don't own a passport?
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Why Making Facebook Private Won't Protect You?
- Because posting something you consider private on facebook (aka publishing it on the Internet) is stupid and careless
- Because facebook employees have unrestricted access to your account
- Because it will be hard if not impossible to *actually* remove your information from their servers and backups
- Because facebook contracts moderating content to outsourcing firms and everything you post there risks being reviewed by an under-vetted, unfulfilled person on a dollar an hour in an internet café in Marrakech.
This is for all you "If you haven't done anything wrong, what do you have to hide?" and "You're one in a million, nobody cares about your insignificant neck-beard life" apologists: Don't you see why it is bad that all that private information is aggregated and under the control of a single entity?
Even if it is done with reasonable safeguards and the best of intentions, which is definitely not the case with facebook, the simple fact that all this information exists online, tied to your real name, means that the potential for abuse is immense. And this is time it's not even facebook doing the abusing and profiteering, it's just an external third party.
And when you've been unemployed for a substantial amount of time and you are desperate for a job, who has more power over you than a potential employer?
Give up your privacy, pledge allegiance to your employer. Don't you love the neofeudalist world we live in?
They caught him about 8 months ago. He has allegedly been an informant since then, which must have given him more than enough time to ponder on how he got caught.
From the Fox News article:
"Anonymous is believed to have caused billions of dollars in damage to governments, international banks and corporations"
Emphasis mine.
One of his last tweet before the arrest:
"They read your mails. Listen to your calls. Break into your wireless routers+sniff your traffic. GPS cars. I'm not talking about terrorists." https://twitter.com/#!/anonymouSabu/status/176683665919721472
I guess he really knew what he was talking about.
or pretty soon there won't be any debate
What do you mean "pretty soon"?
There is currently no meaningful debate in American politics, only posturing on superficial or social issues and very strong bi-partisan agreement on:
- Less civil liberties, more state surveillance (NDAA, warrantless wiretapping etc.)
- Interventionist foreign policy, supported by an over-sized military-industrial complex
- Unconditional support for Wall Street (no meaningful regulation)
- Corporate interests always take precedence/outweigh individual citizens' rights and well being
- A political system with a high barrier of entry (unchecked campaign spending, no representation for small parties)
Coming soon to a corporate network near you : SureView Enterprise.
If a worker acts like a potential human, sending a personal email, visiting an unregistered website or trying to conduct union activities on site, the analyst might push a button and watch a screen video of the officer's last hour of work. Once a case is made that something might be imminent, it is checkmate: the worker is thwarted.
How about a phone that can use two SIM cards at the same time? So we can actually make carriers compete against each other. This is a feature that Android is sorely lacking.
What, carriers don't want any features that might actually empowers their consumers or helps them get away from the "subsidized" (aka bought on credit) phone handset scam? Not to mention, having multiple plans or prepaid SIM cards is also a great way to dramatically cut international roaming costs.
Remember the technologically advanced 90s? Phones used to have that feature back then.
the adolescents could add 11 pounds in weight in a single day
So does my wife.
The ministry of agriculture is not in charge of Gundam. The Gundam ministry is in charge of Gundam.
Remember kids, raising taxes on the rich is class warfare! But lowering their taxes is "incentivizing job creation" and "stimulating the economy".
Funny how class warfare is such a one way street to the right. For some reason it's never class warfare when "job creators" lobby federal and state officials to end all the ground gained by organized labor since the industrial revolution.
A Bitcoin mining trojan you say? Pfff. That's nothing.
I heard someone created a Trojan that repeatedly posts articles *about* Bitcoin on news sites.
Extra judiciary domain seizures, extradition of foreign citizens for crimes not committed in the US... ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is either corrupt or completely out of control. They must be reigned in.
In the mean time, it's great that they have the situation at the Mexican border under control, gives them more time to be innovative in the war against piracy (keep going guys, you're so close to winning that one).
Freedom for enterprise customers and trusted computing for the rest of us. Thanks Apple!
Only corporation (not people) should be entrusted will the ability to run code.
The problem in your example is not advertisement, it's a repressive religion that exert way too much social control over its followers and that punishes and ostracize people based on imaginary crimes.
In other words, loss of privacy for advertising sake, while definitely wrong, is still a lesser evil than religious fundamentalism.
Microsoft: No Botnet Is Indestructible
They should know, they created most of them.
Similar to how pornography reduced sex crimes in Japan
I think we have to be very careful when comparing crime statistics between countries (a well known problem in criminology) and this is especially true with sex crimes. Crime statistics only reflects what has been reported and processed as an actual crime by the system, depending in which country you live this may accurately reflect reality or be completely off.
Things are getting better now but the police in Japan is know for their very poor handling of sex crime victims. This alone greatly affects how many crimes are being reported. Then there are cultural factors that may also lead victims not to report crimes in order to avoid the social consequences of being victimized. Japan being a more group-oriented society than the west, the incentive not to report to "avoid causing troubles" is also stronger. This is a highly political matter since properly taking care of victims and helping them report abuse will actually make the crime rate go *up*. Which would be a very positive outcome for society but a disastrous one for the politician taking that decision.
Does pornography reduce sex crimes? I don't know. I strongly believe it does, but that's just my sentiment.
Why does it matter? If someone is not terminally ill then they shouldn't be allowed to chose how and when to end their life? Because of what?
I'm sorry if I misunderstood you, but it sounds like your saying "Sorry, your sickness is not terminal, it will only guarantee you a life time of horrible debilitating suffering, you'll understand of course that society can't help you end your life, that would be immoral, please grin and bear it, we've determined it's the right thing to do."
Linux ME (aka Linux Millennium Edition)
That we like the way pixel art looks in the first place!
This project is technically interesting but as art it completely misses the point. Not every piece of human creation needs to be updated, upscaled, "improved" and redone.
I know the originals make more sense to me.
This sounds like a ploy to harvest phone numbers from well meaning (if ill informed) users who care about security and who previously hadn't surrendered their phone number to facebook.
Is there a valid reason for not offering the same service via email? Using, you know, the email address that facebook already has on record.
I just what to know how well XBMC for linux runs on this thing now that full access to the hardware is possible (I don't own a PS3... yet).
The XBMC team has stated numerous times that they aren't interested in supporting XBMC on a hacked platform anymore, but this is different since we might be able to run the vanilla linux version on it (and if any optimization is required for it to run smoothly, maybe it can be done at the OS level - outside of XMBC).
Isn't it interesting that social media and modern technology have done more for the desire for democratization than most of our cold-war efforts ever did?
It is interesting.
However if you think that the Cold war was about democratization you're completely deluded. The cold war was two superpower having at it. The west supported whoever was against the soviet side (Containment and Trueman doctrine), including many dictators and autocrats (not to mention our "freedom fighter" friends in Afghanistan). The Cold war has never been about democracy, it was an empire struggle.