But who authorized it? Who's idea was it to have remote access to the webcam of these computers? What procedures were in place to determine when and for how long the cam were turned on? When a computer is deemed missing or stolen, why didn't they go to the student and/or student's parents first? Who, ultimately, decides to turn on the webcam and who views the pictures?
The school is not the answer to any one of those questions. There is a person behind them and they should be held accountable for such a moronic and pervasive plan.
Given the replies that while there are TVs and radios they're inspected regularly and have to certified to pick up only specific frequencies, I'd say I was close. The information-starved will remain so. They might open the borders enough to pull a China and sell what amounts to slave labor but human rights certainly won't follow.
With paper, you have to hand count it and there's observers from each party there. Then there's simply the paper itself. You need to bring in extra ballots and/or dispose of many.
With an insecure electronic system, it might be as easy as typing in a new count number. Observers may not understand the tech so swapping programs or hardware could be done right under their nose. Programs aren't open source and are not available to scrutinize. They could give different results on different dates or show voters they voted correctly when they tallied another for the opposing party. If they're connected to the internet, the voting machine could be hacked or the offsite tallying system could be.
Not sure about experimental but if you were able to get these bee businesses to give when and where they let bees out, that'd be a puzzle piece.
Trying to pin point origins of the fungus and virus would be harder but maybe they could do something similar to DNA tracing of migration patterns.
Or it could be that where that they never were in truly distinct areas and the only thing that kept it in check was the severity of their one-two punch. If bees get infected, they die out in that area but now with our "help", the bees can travel much further and much faster than before, increasing the chance of running into bees with one or the other disease.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say in the first part but as for the second, I mean store bought pesticide for home use. I don't have much hope that the person who buys that stuff will use it sparingly when they could spend some time outdoors with a trowel.
Maybe regulations was the wrong word. I'll use that other scary word TAXES here but I think curbing home use of pesticides would be good.
As for the bedbugs, I'm of two minds here. It would be good to get rid of them and responsible use of DDT (you know, this vs coated netting and spot spraying) but on the other hand, anything less than overkill could leave survivors who could breed with other survivors to create better ones and so on and so forth... but while looking for a link to DDT coated netting, I came across this: http://www.awitness.org/column/bed_bug_science.html
I don't know how accurate the website is but DDT resistant bedbugs gives lots of results on google.
Why can't bees adapt? Different breeding habits. I don't know a whole lot about bedbugs but I'm confident what they do is closer to an orgy vs the queen bees male harem. There would be far more DNA combinations with the former than the latter.
A lot of news sites require accounts to post comments. Rather than signup for every site I wish to add a quip to, I decide it's not worth the time and doubly so since it's often not a local issue or news source.
If they want to try to bring order, they can certainly attempt to try. Non-assholes without accounts will be inconvenienced and assholes will simply conjure up a fake name using a phony email account and spew their shit accordingly.
Blizzard, on the other hand, was changing for the same goal but had different tools to use: paid accounts. Ban your account and you'd have to shell out $ to get back in. Blizzard was complaining about their forums being a cesspool but they're the ones who let it happen. They shouldn't have let people post from any one of their characters (except RP forums) and forum bans should mean game bans. They never opted for those and instead would have exposed people's names to the internet.
And then there's apathy. We've gone over this. People who don't want to use their names will use fake ones. People who want to be assholes will be assholes. This dude doesn't understand it.
I heard one idea about stop trying to get bees to pollinate a single crop at a time. The idea is that like us, they aren't getting the nutrition they need from one plant. They need many different plants.
My idea would be to stop shipping them all over the country. Yeah, yeah, hippie organic shit but I'm willing to bet that the fungus and the virus were in separate regions at one point. Shipping them around exposed them to new diseases and exposed native bees to new diseases. Well, that's my hypothesis anyway.
I'd also like to see more stringent pesticide regulations.
It's an older model. In TFA, they mention newer models that they wire up to the car battery and forgo the need for their own. No battery = much smaller
I'll give them a break when they stop reseting options with new privacy policies or ToS that lowers the ability for users to lock down their accounts and defaults all options to the most open setting.
I'll give them a break when their account deletion process no longer requires users themselves to manually go through and delete everything they put on the website.
Given FB's history, a move like this makes me wonder what detrimental change they're also doing. I'm guessing the reseting of privacy options.
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That means their natural enemy would be... vampire pirates?
Third time? Are you sure you didn't just read the same story on three different sites?
Fingertip tattoos?
But who authorized it? Who's idea was it to have remote access to the webcam of these computers? What procedures were in place to determine when and for how long the cam were turned on? When a computer is deemed missing or stolen, why didn't they go to the student and/or student's parents first? Who, ultimately, decides to turn on the webcam and who views the pictures?
The school is not the answer to any one of those questions. There is a person behind them and they should be held accountable for such a moronic and pervasive plan.
It's just a settlement though.
If a student or anyone else did this, he would be charged with hacking, tampering with an electronic device, and creating child pornography.
I mean, they got money for their troubles but I wouldn't call it a win for privacy rights or the rights of children.
I notice your anecdotal evidence lacks more recent examples of Sony hardware.
Heh, yeah, I can see it now.
"Why does the President want to spend money looking at the sky?! He should be looking at the bottom line!"
"Is there something he doesn't want us to find on the ground?"
"Look, the Earth is 75% water and only half of it would be facing bombardment. Add that up and we've got a negative 25% chance to be hit!"
"Asteroid monitoring? What's the use in that?"
Cue asteroid strike a la Bobby Jindal and volcano monitoring.
Given the replies that while there are TVs and radios they're inspected regularly and have to certified to pick up only specific frequencies, I'd say I was close. The information-starved will remain so. They might open the borders enough to pull a China and sell what amounts to slave labor but human rights certainly won't follow.
He said "easier", not "suddenly possible".
With paper, you have to hand count it and there's observers from each party there. Then there's simply the paper itself. You need to bring in extra ballots and/or dispose of many.
With an insecure electronic system, it might be as easy as typing in a new count number. Observers may not understand the tech so swapping programs or hardware could be done right under their nose. Programs aren't open source and are not available to scrutinize. They could give different results on different dates or show voters they voted correctly when they tallied another for the opposing party. If they're connected to the internet, the voting machine could be hacked or the offsite tallying system could be.
I doubt they even have TVs or radios. I bet it's not even legal for them to either.
Criminals are taking down the system the Zap Brannigan way, with wave after wave of their own men....
We just need to be more creative about it.
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/08/13/swedish-man-may-pay-largest-speeding-fine-ever/
Those are wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets. And sometimes deer flies.
I like nature but I HATE all of those bastards. Yes, there was a few childhood incidents.
Imagine the shock when she realizes 'woman' still has 'man' in the word.
Not sure about experimental but if you were able to get these bee businesses to give when and where they let bees out, that'd be a puzzle piece.
Trying to pin point origins of the fungus and virus would be harder but maybe they could do something similar to DNA tracing of migration patterns.
Or it could be that where that they never were in truly distinct areas and the only thing that kept it in check was the severity of their one-two punch. If bees get infected, they die out in that area but now with our "help", the bees can travel much further and much faster than before, increasing the chance of running into bees with one or the other disease.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say in the first part but as for the second, I mean store bought pesticide for home use. I don't have much hope that the person who buys that stuff will use it sparingly when they could spend some time outdoors with a trowel.
Maybe regulations was the wrong word. I'll use that other scary word TAXES here but I think curbing home use of pesticides would be good.
As for the bedbugs, I'm of two minds here. It would be good to get rid of them and responsible use of DDT (you know, this vs coated netting and spot spraying) but on the other hand, anything less than overkill could leave survivors who could breed with other survivors to create better ones and so on and so forth... but while looking for a link to DDT coated netting, I came across this: http://www.awitness.org/column/bed_bug_science.html
I don't know how accurate the website is but DDT resistant bedbugs gives lots of results on google.
Why can't bees adapt? Different breeding habits. I don't know a whole lot about bedbugs but I'm confident what they do is closer to an orgy vs the queen bees male harem. There would be far more DNA combinations with the former than the latter.
A lot of news sites require accounts to post comments. Rather than signup for every site I wish to add a quip to, I decide it's not worth the time and doubly so since it's often not a local issue or news source.
If they want to try to bring order, they can certainly attempt to try. Non-assholes without accounts will be inconvenienced and assholes will simply conjure up a fake name using a phony email account and spew their shit accordingly.
Blizzard, on the other hand, was changing for the same goal but had different tools to use: paid accounts. Ban your account and you'd have to shell out $ to get back in. Blizzard was complaining about their forums being a cesspool but they're the ones who let it happen. They shouldn't have let people post from any one of their characters (except RP forums) and forum bans should mean game bans. They never opted for those and instead would have exposed people's names to the internet.
And then there's apathy. We've gone over this. People who don't want to use their names will use fake ones. People who want to be assholes will be assholes. This dude doesn't understand it.
I heard one idea about stop trying to get bees to pollinate a single crop at a time. The idea is that like us, they aren't getting the nutrition they need from one plant. They need many different plants.
My idea would be to stop shipping them all over the country. Yeah, yeah, hippie organic shit but I'm willing to bet that the fungus and the virus were in separate regions at one point. Shipping them around exposed them to new diseases and exposed native bees to new diseases. Well, that's my hypothesis anyway.
I'd also like to see more stringent pesticide regulations.
He saw through the security theater and openly questioned it. Pretty dangerous, huh?
And so, the war against common sense and intelligence dutifully continues.
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Oh hehe! AHAHHAHA! I can't finish the line...
It's an older model. In TFA, they mention newer models that they wire up to the car battery and forgo the need for their own. No battery = much smaller
And the chicks keep winning that game. :(
Wait, you mean people have only been reporting negative things about FB and largely left out anything positive that they have done?
Alright, well... there go my arguments. *Tips hat*
I'll give them a break when they stop reseting options with new privacy policies or ToS that lowers the ability for users to lock down their accounts and defaults all options to the most open setting.
I'll give them a break when their account deletion process no longer requires users themselves to manually go through and delete everything they put on the website.
Given FB's history, a move like this makes me wonder what detrimental change they're also doing. I'm guessing the reseting of privacy options.
If it's coming out of a CEO's mouth, it's only purpose is to pad said CEO's wallet.