My cell phone (a Samsung A660), like many others, has some sort of location-broadcast feature (GPS, probably?) built-in. By default it is on.
Even when it is off, 911 operators can determine your position. Good; there's no reason they shouldn't be able to - it's for safety's sake.
When it is turned on, this message is shown: "Sprint PCS and those parties you have given permission to will now be able to retrieve your location from the network."
What qualifies as permission given? Was there some small text in the service contract giving permission to some other party?
(fyi, I wouldn't know as I'm on a family plan and my parents signed the service contract.)
Yeah. It was a joke, supposed to be poking fun at the recent blaming of BT for MPAA employees leaking Star Wars Episode 3. I guess it wasn't funny, though.
In all reality, I have much respect for authors. Their income really is hard-earned.
(Agreed on the having a physical book thing, BTW.)
As we all know, this atrocity was quite obviously made possible by modern technology. Peer To Peer networking, known to the tech-savvy as 'P2P', is used by book pirates around the world to infringe on author's rights.
BitTorrent is one such P2P technology that a majority of pirates use to deprive authors of their hard-earned income. "Its mere existance is a scourge to society," says a Book Writer's Association of America (BWAA) spokesman.
The BWAA hereby proclaims that it will do everything possible to stop these net-using, book-stealing crooks in order to protect the intellectual rights of authors everywhere. BitTorrent and other software like it must not be allowed into the hands of innocent people.
Ask yourself this question: do you have much reasonable expectation of privacy as it is? It seems like every other week there's some article on Slashdot about some huge corporation in the good ol' U. S. of A. having lost the personal data of thousands of people - personal data which, in the majority of cases, these people didn't even know the corporation had.
isn't there some technical way to find out what people are watching, anonymously? Like, from PVR prefs or recordings, draw on broadcast antennas (radio or broadcast tv/cable)?
RF antennas have a constant power output, no matter how many devices are recieving the signal.
The truth of the matter is, people want drama in their lives, however lame it is. They expect the media to give it to them - and so they do. Who do we blame? IMHO, it's the general population's fault for wanting the drama.
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My cell phone (a Samsung A660), like many others, has some sort of location-broadcast feature (GPS, probably?) built-in. By default it is on.
Even when it is off, 911 operators can determine your position. Good; there's no reason they shouldn't be able to - it's for safety's sake.
When it is turned on, this message is shown: "Sprint PCS and those parties you have given permission to will now be able to retrieve your location from the network."
What qualifies as permission given? Was there some small text in the service contract giving permission to some other party?
(fyi, I wouldn't know as I'm on a family plan and my parents signed the service contract.)
So it's supposed to help Sun with its, er, problems?
Yeah. It was a joke, supposed to be poking fun at the recent blaming of BT for MPAA employees leaking Star Wars Episode 3. I guess it wasn't funny, though.
In all reality, I have much respect for authors. Their income really is hard-earned.
(Agreed on the having a physical book thing, BTW.)
As we all know, this atrocity was quite obviously made possible by modern technology. Peer To Peer networking, known to the tech-savvy as 'P2P', is used by book pirates around the world to infringe on author's rights.
BitTorrent is one such P2P technology that a majority of pirates use to deprive authors of their hard-earned income. "Its mere existance is a scourge to society," says a Book Writer's Association of America (BWAA) spokesman.
The BWAA hereby proclaims that it will do everything possible to stop these net-using, book-stealing crooks in order to protect the intellectual rights of authors everywhere. BitTorrent and other software like it must not be allowed into the hands of innocent people.
From the IERS website:
Welcome to the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service
Will they change my oil and check my brakes, too?
Very much agreed; perhaps it was smap, then?
Not to be a Grammar Nazi or anything, but that summary made me cringe... By means of a massive core, we discovered a planet? Among other things...
In Soviet Russia, the north pole comes to YOU.
It is wrong.
Ask yourself this question: do you have much reasonable expectation of privacy as it is? It seems like every other week there's some article on Slashdot about some huge corporation in the good ol' U. S. of A. having lost the personal data of thousands of people - personal data which, in the majority of cases, these people didn't even know the corporation had.
Sssshhhhhhhh! Don't tell AOL's lawyers!
For those who aren't familiar with it either, this is a Wallace and Gromit movie.
...but that doesn't mean I'm stupid.
And please, don't let our president influence your stereoty^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H impression of Americans.
Same rotation angle, as well...
Your point is valid and well supported - I grant you that. But how long until these things are tracked, without our knowledge or consent?
Naw, the /. post is referring to itself. It does both.
The truth of the matter is, people want drama in their lives, however lame it is. They expect the media to give it to them - and so they do.
Who do we blame? IMHO, it's the general population's fault for wanting the drama.
You posted a friggin' IMAGE GALLERY on the FRONT PAGE of SLASHDOT??
Whaddaya wanna do, KILL 'EM??
...only has four corners.
Oh, don't worry. They will.
It's not terribly funny, though. Maybe we need a "Bad Humor" section...
Oh, whoops, Slashdot doesn't have a "Humor" section. Better put in in "Science," then.
Currently, it's 'i'. iPod and iRobot led to iThis, iThat...
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