Good luck rounding up legal representation from a cell in Gitmo. Any attempt to make a legal argument around the details of NSA's request would have them shut down as hindering national security. Push the issue and you're a terrorist and off to a little resort in the Caribbean for you.
I think this is a stretch of imagination. If the USA was a bad as this statement makes us appear to be, then why is Ladar Levison free and able to talk to us? I would think he'd have disappeared without a sound and Lavabit would've been confiscated quietly.
While I agree, the Police States of America are getting a bit out of hand, it ain't quite this bad. Not yet at least. Headed there, but I like to believe it's not too late to take a different road.
Actually there is so much forking because everybody wants it Their Way. It is easier to just grab what's out there and run off with it to change on your own than to communicate and cooperate and work together.
Software could converge and improve over time and become ever closer to perfect, but instead everybody wants their chunk of code in there that they wrote to replace something they ripped out because doing so was easier than working to understand the old one.
I think you just described what is so awesome about open source. Don't like it? Fix it yourself, if others like your fixes, they'll incorporate them upstream, if not, then well, you still have your version that does what you want it to do.
One thing I think he misses pointing out is the good ol' saying: The right tool for the job.
Which is probably a huge reason there's so much forking and so many different distros for Linux and all the open source software that follows it, and for that matter the reason there's more than one OS.
We want to use the right tool for the job.
I do like the general premise 'Linux Sucks', because I think it's good that Linux as a collective, a community, can look at their creation and say, "Well, it still sucks." And carries on to keep making it better every day.
NDA's for the most part tend to not be hidden in a pile of legalese. Usually when two parties enter into a NDA contract, they're both perfectly aware of what they're doing. This is different, this is trying to sneak a NDA onto everyone who has been indoctrinated to click 'I agree' on every fricking website they touch.
The First Amendment protects us from prosecution by the government. It doesn't protect us from civil matters with private companies. This Pérez guy should know that.
Except our government is pretty much run and owned by private companies now. So we should treat private companies much like we do our government. They're practically one and the same at this point.
It is a serious question. I'm beginning to think that collectively the NSA (and CIA too for that matter) is just... dumb. At best, a bunch of careerists milking the govt gravy train.
Unlike all their activities... the good they're doing is top secret!
How is this any different from something like GoToMyPc.COM or Join.Me ????
Should I be worried now that I use join.me to invite friends to see what I'm doing, or use it to help friends having trouble?
A piece of software's intended functions should not be viewed as good or bad, it's simply a tool. You can club some one over the head with a monkey wrench and kill them. Does that mean this tool has no legitimate uses?
"Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?"
Welcome to America, where we have now passed through the stage where money is equivalent to speech and reached the point where money is the only socially-acceptable form of speech
Certainly the only kind of speech the politicians in Washington seem to understand. Money speaks loudest there. Too bad you don't have enough to be heard, most of us don't. Was there a point? Were you suggesting we use our voices? You think the politicians in Washington are listening? With all that much louder money flying around? Hehe, you must be new here.
Remember Total Annihilation (now rebooted as Planetary Annihilation)? Reminds me of the concept in that game of nanolathing, ie spraying nanite construction bots to build a structure or vehicle, either from a mobile platform (vehicle, kbot or plane) or static factory.
This must be being done by some bad apples. Perhaps my experience was different but when I was in my 20's around gay people, they mostly wanted to just be accepted and/or left alone to do their own thing. I'm not sure where this community crossed the line into forcing their views upon others. I definitely really don't approve.
I'm all for LGBT rights and such, but really to criticize a game just cuz it don't include your sexual orientation..? I dunno about that. What's next? Is the LGBT community going to demand air time in Disney cartoons next?
Besides, no one complained about Harvest Moon, another game that only permits heterosexual marriages. So what! It's a game!
Except that many cabs are dispatched and use meters that report back to the dispatch. Generally when a meter is turned on it reports to the dispatch the the car is in use and not to send calls to it. You also forget about the cameras that are in most cabs.
Um, isn't one of the 'great things' about Uber and their kin is any John Doe can offer to give someone a ride if he's got nothing better to do? And who is making sure John Doe's vehicle is up to regulation with a proper meter and recording devices? Oh whoops, no one!
3. Fad. Sure there are quite a few Uber drivers right now. It is new and interesting. Wait till some drivers have to deal with obnoxious drinks puking in their car a few times. The fad will wear off and many Uber drivers will quit.
Take it a step further and how about the first crime committed against a fare from a driver? Going to see some "Oh yea, we needed to regulate that, didn't we?" popping up really fast when a drunk pretty girl gets more than a ride to her destination.
Let the 'mobile gaming' scene derp along without a clue. It's a phone, not a gaming machine. I think at best mobile gaming is just supposed to get you through that 30 minute bus ride, or subway. And distractions are so high in these situations, your brain isn't going to handle much more than a sub-par freebie game.
Would that thirst for adventure have existed had we not been competing with our red adversaries?
I agree with this. Competition drives humanity to do extraordinary things. It's just unfortunate that most of the time, these extraordinary things are very very destructive. I believe the missions to the moon in the 60's were exactly this. Dual purpose technology being tested in a non-aggressive way. I'm sure if there was a lack of parallel development of ICBM's and using much the same technology as was necessary to launch a rocket to the moon..yeah. Wouldn't have happened if ICBM development wasn't along side.
OK first, you have to make one assumption. The so called other species is curious. Only a curious species would acquire the technologies necessary to make a trip to earth.
With just this one assumption, studying us is definitely on the table for a good reason to come here. Studying ALL life on earth is a good reason. We're curious too and we love studying all the life around us. I think a curious species would be all over the place studying.
As a consequence of this, we as a curious species have developed a sense of 'conservation.' That is, leaving things on earth, at least in some parts, exactly how it evolved with as little of our interference as possible. It comes to me, our other species may develop this same sense, as a curious species. We did. Now add in the wildly advanced technology this curious species would require to make the trip, maybe they ARE studying us and we just don't know it. For all we know, our entire world is a 'wildlife refuge' in the eyes of another curious species.
CCP has gone to great lengths to set up a system where players are welcomed to 'pay in' CASH to get in game money (the PLEX system basically.) Where they frown on and will throw you out of the game for is YOU circumventing their PLEX system to trade RL cash for ingame anything. As I said, it's a money sink, RL money only goes in, never comes out.
This new thing with netflix is just showing big ISP's they can start milking content providers for 'better connectivity' to their throngs of last mile consumers. This is in no way a good thing.
And who's paying for it? Netflix customers. Did comcast lower their price? Nooo. Did Netflix lower their price? Noooo.. in fact they raised it.
so why is it better for the sender of 30% of the internet's traffic to send their traffic through a third party network rather than directly to customers?
L3 and Cogent have done plenty of shady things in the past when they had the upper hand in the business. now they don't and are crying network neutrality
These are all reasons we need heavy regulation and common carrier status for internet networking infrastructure providers, regardless of tier or business size. So they quit screwing US over with their shady backroom deals, cuz you know who pays for those deals. We do, the last mile customers. Weither in higher prices, degraded service or lack of customer support. And any combination of the three.
Not really a fair comparison. EVE is a 'real world' money sink. Money goes in and never comes out (for the players.) Second Life is completely different, money is exchangeable for real world currencies, much like any other real currency. If you buy USD$20 worth of Linden Dollars, you can turn around and sell those Linden Dollars right back for USD$20. EVE's ISK stays in game and in fact its highly against CCP's rules for any exchange of ingame goods/currency for real world money.
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Good luck rounding up legal representation from a cell in Gitmo. Any attempt to make a legal argument around the details of NSA's request would have them shut down as hindering national security. Push the issue and you're a terrorist and off to a little resort in the Caribbean for you.
I think this is a stretch of imagination. If the USA was a bad as this statement makes us appear to be, then why is Ladar Levison free and able to talk to us? I would think he'd have disappeared without a sound and Lavabit would've been confiscated quietly.
While I agree, the Police States of America are getting a bit out of hand, it ain't quite this bad. Not yet at least. Headed there, but I like to believe it's not too late to take a different road.
Not really. The US is not particularly dependent on foreign trade. Sure there would be some dislocations but it would likely remain a superpower.
You don't shop much do you? Do you have any idea how hard it is to find any household items not made in China?
Actually there is so much forking because everybody wants it Their Way. It is easier to just grab what's out there and run off with it to change on your own than to communicate and cooperate and work together.
Software could converge and improve over time and become ever closer to perfect, but instead everybody wants their chunk of code in there that they wrote to replace something they ripped out because doing so was easier than working to understand the old one.
I think you just described what is so awesome about open source. Don't like it? Fix it yourself, if others like your fixes, they'll incorporate them upstream, if not, then well, you still have your version that does what you want it to do.
One thing I think he misses pointing out is the good ol' saying: The right tool for the job.
Which is probably a huge reason there's so much forking and so many different distros for Linux and all the open source software that follows it, and for that matter the reason there's more than one OS.
We want to use the right tool for the job.
I do like the general premise 'Linux Sucks', because I think it's good that Linux as a collective, a community, can look at their creation and say, "Well, it still sucks." And carries on to keep making it better every day.
Any VR headset not attached to Facebook is a win in my eyes.
F Oculus. Won't touch it as long as Facebook has their hand in it. Pass.
NDA's for the most part tend to not be hidden in a pile of legalese. Usually when two parties enter into a NDA contract, they're both perfectly aware of what they're doing. This is different, this is trying to sneak a NDA onto everyone who has been indoctrinated to click 'I agree' on every fricking website they touch.
The First Amendment protects us from prosecution by the government. It doesn't protect us from civil matters with private companies. This Pérez guy should know that.
Except our government is pretty much run and owned by private companies now. So we should treat private companies much like we do our government. They're practically one and the same at this point.
It is a serious question. I'm beginning to think that collectively the NSA (and CIA too for that matter) is just ... dumb. At best, a bunch of careerists milking the govt gravy train.
Unlike all their activities... the good they're doing is top secret!
The National Security Agency is secretly intercepting, recording, and archiving the audio...
The National Security Agency was secretly intercepting, recording, and archiving the audio...
FTFY.
As a teen, I remember actually getting some bozo on IRC to install BO on his PC for me. Social engineering is so fun. Dem were the days.
How is this any different from something like GoToMyPc.COM or Join.Me ????
Should I be worried now that I use join.me to invite friends to see what I'm doing, or use it to help friends having trouble?
A piece of software's intended functions should not be viewed as good or bad, it's simply a tool. You can club some one over the head with a monkey wrench and kill them. Does that mean this tool has no legitimate uses?
"Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?"
Welcome to America, where we have now passed through the stage where money is equivalent to speech and reached the point where money is the only socially-acceptable form of speech
Certainly the only kind of speech the politicians in Washington seem to understand. Money speaks loudest there. Too bad you don't have enough to be heard, most of us don't. Was there a point? Were you suggesting we use our voices? You think the politicians in Washington are listening? With all that much louder money flying around? Hehe, you must be new here.
Remember Total Annihilation (now rebooted as Planetary Annihilation)? Reminds me of the concept in that game of nanolathing, ie spraying nanite construction bots to build a structure or vehicle, either from a mobile platform (vehicle, kbot or plane) or static factory.
This must be being done by some bad apples. Perhaps my experience was different but when I was in my 20's around gay people, they mostly wanted to just be accepted and/or left alone to do their own thing. I'm not sure where this community crossed the line into forcing their views upon others. I definitely really don't approve.
This is just dumb. It's a game!
I'm all for LGBT rights and such, but really to criticize a game just cuz it don't include your sexual orientation..? I dunno about that. What's next? Is the LGBT community going to demand air time in Disney cartoons next?
Besides, no one complained about Harvest Moon, another game that only permits heterosexual marriages. So what! It's a game!
Except that many cabs are dispatched and use meters that report back to the dispatch. Generally when a meter is turned on it reports to the dispatch the the car is in use and not to send calls to it. You also forget about the cameras that are in most cabs.
Um, isn't one of the 'great things' about Uber and their kin is any John Doe can offer to give someone a ride if he's got nothing better to do? And who is making sure John Doe's vehicle is up to regulation with a proper meter and recording devices? Oh whoops, no one!
3. Fad. Sure there are quite a few Uber drivers right now. It is new and interesting. Wait till some drivers have to deal with obnoxious drinks puking in their car a few times. The fad will wear off and many Uber drivers will quit.
Take it a step further and how about the first crime committed against a fare from a driver? Going to see some "Oh yea, we needed to regulate that, didn't we?" popping up really fast when a drunk pretty girl gets more than a ride to her destination.
I wish that the cities I spend the most time in would do the same, but they've been busily protecting the local cartels, instead,
And if you were in the taxi business, you'd be trying to protect your interests too. Why is this a surprise, or unexpected?
Let the 'mobile gaming' scene derp along without a clue. It's a phone, not a gaming machine. I think at best mobile gaming is just supposed to get you through that 30 minute bus ride, or subway. And distractions are so high in these situations, your brain isn't going to handle much more than a sub-par freebie game.
Leave the gaming to the big boys.
Would that thirst for adventure have existed had we not been competing with our red adversaries?
I agree with this. Competition drives humanity to do extraordinary things. It's just unfortunate that most of the time, these extraordinary things are very very destructive. I believe the missions to the moon in the 60's were exactly this. Dual purpose technology being tested in a non-aggressive way. I'm sure if there was a lack of parallel development of ICBM's and using much the same technology as was necessary to launch a rocket to the moon..yeah. Wouldn't have happened if ICBM development wasn't along side.
OK first, you have to make one assumption. The so called other species is curious. Only a curious species would acquire the technologies necessary to make a trip to earth.
With just this one assumption, studying us is definitely on the table for a good reason to come here. Studying ALL life on earth is a good reason. We're curious too and we love studying all the life around us. I think a curious species would be all over the place studying.
As a consequence of this, we as a curious species have developed a sense of 'conservation.' That is, leaving things on earth, at least in some parts, exactly how it evolved with as little of our interference as possible. It comes to me, our other species may develop this same sense, as a curious species. We did. Now add in the wildly advanced technology this curious species would require to make the trip, maybe they ARE studying us and we just don't know it. For all we know, our entire world is a 'wildlife refuge' in the eyes of another curious species.
CCP has gone to great lengths to set up a system where players are welcomed to 'pay in' CASH to get in game money (the PLEX system basically.) Where they frown on and will throw you out of the game for is YOU circumventing their PLEX system to trade RL cash for ingame anything. As I said, it's a money sink, RL money only goes in, never comes out.
This new thing with netflix is just showing big ISP's they can start milking content providers for 'better connectivity' to their throngs of last mile consumers. This is in no way a good thing.
And who's paying for it? Netflix customers. Did comcast lower their price? Nooo. Did Netflix lower their price? Noooo.. in fact they raised it.
so why is it better for the sender of 30% of the internet's traffic to send their traffic through a third party network rather than directly to customers?
L3 and Cogent have done plenty of shady things in the past when they had the upper hand in the business. now they don't and are crying network neutrality
These are all reasons we need heavy regulation and common carrier status for internet networking infrastructure providers, regardless of tier or business size. So they quit screwing US over with their shady backroom deals, cuz you know who pays for those deals. We do, the last mile customers. Weither in higher prices, degraded service or lack of customer support. And any combination of the three.
Not really a fair comparison. EVE is a 'real world' money sink. Money goes in and never comes out (for the players.) Second Life is completely different, money is exchangeable for real world currencies, much like any other real currency. If you buy USD$20 worth of Linden Dollars, you can turn around and sell those Linden Dollars right back for USD$20. EVE's ISK stays in game and in fact its highly against CCP's rules for any exchange of ingame goods/currency for real world money.