And consumers generally should have the right to delete their data at any time, especially the data they post on the internet themselves
We need an automatic Streisand Amplification System that immediately draws attention to anything a user has requested deletion of. Especially if it's pictures.
If you find a device like this on your car, have fun with it. Ship it across country - the government will know where the UPS guy is. Smash it open to see what is inside. Sell it on eBay. Report it to your local Sheriff as a suspicious device.
My plan would be to park somewhere with a lot of people around, or somewhere that will cause a lot of inconvenience, then call 000 (Australia emergency number) saying I have found a suspicious device on my car... and I think it's ticking. Maybe I might have seen a guy of middle eastern appearance hanging around my car earlier too. I'd definitely want the story to be on all the news channels for a day or two.
Alternatively, if I was a crook and I knew about the GPS device, it would make a great alibi (assuming the cops weren't also following me, which would kind of defeat the purpose of a GPS tracker). I could park in my garage, remove the device, go and commit a crime, then put it back and claim I was home the whole time, and use the police records to prove it.
If you were in front of the US Supreme Court and they asked you how this is fundamentally different than tracking your car through traditional police surveillance, how would you answer?
In the same way that listening to a conversation by bugging a person is considered different from listening in on their conversation from a nearby table in a restaurant. One involves the compromise of someone's personal property and effects (protected by the 4th amendment) and the other doesn't.
Expectation of privacy is what's different. If you are sitting at home having a conversion you can reasonably expect that your conversation is private, and if a policeman was standing in your lounge room jotting down what you were saying then you'd know about it. You don't have the same expectation in a restaurant.
Sort of the same with GPS tracking on your car - if you are in the middle of nowhere with nobody around then you can reasonably expect that it's safe to do your drug exchange and nobody can easily prove you were there. If the police were following you, even discretely, then in the middle of nowhere you'd probably know about it and wouldn't do your private drug exchange.
Seriously... what sort of a virus/trojan/worm makes its presence known by leaving the driver files around for any old userspace app to peruse???
Every time I come across a virus I am kind of disappointed at how easy they are to detect. They hook this and that, but then go and kill your antivirus software - a dead giveaway. That wouldn't trip up most home users, but then the malware also makes so many TCP connections that internet browsing doesn't work anymore, which means the user either wipes it and reinstalls, or takes it into the shop to get fixed. Actually finding where the thing is hiding is still a bit of a challenge, but the fact that they kill AV tools and pretty much anything from sysinternals, and the egress traffic they generate, is a dead giveaway that something is hiding there.
OTOH... maybe the perfect virus does exist and it's everywhere but nobody knows they have it...
As has been said in a thread nearby, the reason to play is so that some people bystanders who are unsure about god or science might be enlightened and saved from a life of ignorance.
Don't knock a life of ignorance unless you've tried it. A lot of creationists are perfectly happy in their beliefs and the world is no worse for it. A small and very vocal minority of creationists are mortally offended that anyone might have a belief that differs from theirs and go to great lengths to change the minds of others, but they are only marginally worse than the small and very vocal minority of athiests who do the same (the creationists only being worse through the virtue of being wrong:), and if there wasn't religion people would still find ways to be shitty to each other so be careful about blaming religion for all of the horrible things that happen.
I get what your saying, i'm just not particularly fussed about bystanders living a life of ignorance. A belief in a higher power seems to do some people a great deal of good, and if they also believe that their higher power created the earth just like the bible says then so be it (although I do start to worry if their literal interpretation of the bible doesn't end there...). Despite overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary, there is always the very remote and unlikely possibility that they are right...
Until you ask the question, "where did God come from".
From what i've read, the theory is that he was always there. Sounds simple to me.
And, Occam's Razor isn't the answer to any question. It isn't about answering questions. It's about balancing the realtive likelihood of several potential answers to a question which can't be proven.
Fair enough. The problem is that the people who believe the hardcore creationist stuff are a simple lot, and "God did it" is a very simple answer which can be molded to fit any conflicting evidence you choose to present. Fossils predating the supposed biblical age of the Earth? God put them there to tempt the non-believer. Why would he do that? Because he moves in mysterious ways. Duh.
With the answers "god did it" and "god moves in mysterious ways" at the ready, you'll be hard pressed to win an argument with a creationist, at least on their terms. The only way to win is not to play.
Not this granola bullshit again. Science has methods to revise the wrongs. I haven't seen anyone updating the bible with new info. Hell, try it. A lot of fanatics would burn you at the stake for "desecrating" their "holy works".
The bible in wiki format would be... awesome. Although I somewhat suspect that's how it got to be the mess it's in now.
"Science" believed a whole lot of things that turned out not to be true too, and I bet you can find a whole lot of books with those "truths" in them for the creationists to waggle their finger at...
Weird, I see imaginary friend as the simpler explanation. Again, it's all about personal bias.
Me too. "God made the world in 7 days" sounds far simpler than anything science has come up with. As simple as the explanation might be though, I still don't believe in God. Occam might have been a smart guy but his razor isn't the answer to every question.
Even worse, have you ever seen a trained scientologist arguing his/her point? It's possible to 'win' a debate without being right as long as you know how to play the game.
The summary is calling it "Industrial action by union employees". Most news outlets are just calling it a "strike". The needlessly long and obtuse description used here on the front page could be read to mean intentional equipment sabotage instead...
For some reason it seems that the word "strike" has become unpopular here in Australia, and the broader term "industrial action" has replaced it, or at least that's been my observation.
The only opposition I have heard is that vaccine might not be as effective as the manufacturer of the drug makes out, and in addition to the potential health benefits, they also get double the $$$ if boys are vaccinated too. Now it could be that the religious nuts are pushing the opposition while carefully not mentioning the S word... who knows.
I always wondered why they didn't vaccinate boys against german measles too. Maybe that's a long term strategy by the manufacturer of the drug? If everyone got vaccinated and the disease got eradicated there would be no more market for it. By only vaccinating the girls they ensure that the disease remains common enough to be a threat and they have a market for life, or at least until the patents run out. That theory runs contrary to the first paragraph though, but since when did a conspiracy have to make sense or be consistent with any other conspiracy?;)
I regularly visit youtube and nearly every music video on there has comments like 'vevo sucks' and I never figured out why all the fuss for an almost invisible watermark in the corner of the video... until I used it in IE one day.
Slashdot Mirror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
And consumers generally should have the right to delete their data at any time, especially the data they post on the internet themselves
We need an automatic Streisand Amplification System that immediately draws attention to anything a user has requested deletion of. Especially if it's pictures.
i wonder if this stuff will find applications in night-vision cloaking (far infrared)
Unless this material has some new property, wouldn't it also radiate better than any other material?
Here's a photo of it. In the middle, kinda hard to make out http://f.cl.ly/items/1S2W2w3X0z13450i440Z/black.jpg
That's obviously been photoshopped.
If you find a device like this on your car, have fun with it. Ship it across country - the government will know where the UPS guy is. Smash it open to see what is inside. Sell it on eBay. Report it to your local Sheriff as a suspicious device.
My plan would be to park somewhere with a lot of people around, or somewhere that will cause a lot of inconvenience, then call 000 (Australia emergency number) saying I have found a suspicious device on my car... and I think it's ticking. Maybe I might have seen a guy of middle eastern appearance hanging around my car earlier too. I'd definitely want the story to be on all the news channels for a day or two.
Alternatively, if I was a crook and I knew about the GPS device, it would make a great alibi (assuming the cops weren't also following me, which would kind of defeat the purpose of a GPS tracker). I could park in my garage, remove the device, go and commit a crime, then put it back and claim I was home the whole time, and use the police records to prove it.
If you were in front of the US Supreme Court and they asked you how this is fundamentally different than tracking your car through traditional police surveillance, how would you answer?
In the same way that listening to a conversation by bugging a person is considered different from listening in on their conversation from a nearby table in a restaurant. One involves the compromise of someone's personal property and effects (protected by the 4th amendment) and the other doesn't.
Expectation of privacy is what's different. If you are sitting at home having a conversion you can reasonably expect that your conversation is private, and if a policeman was standing in your lounge room jotting down what you were saying then you'd know about it. You don't have the same expectation in a restaurant.
Sort of the same with GPS tracking on your car - if you are in the middle of nowhere with nobody around then you can reasonably expect that it's safe to do your drug exchange and nobody can easily prove you were there. If the police were following you, even discretely, then in the middle of nowhere you'd probably know about it and wouldn't do your private drug exchange.
"Every time I come across a virus I am kind of disappointed at how easy they are to detect"
maybe that's because you only come across those that are detectable by your tools? ^^
You stopped reading before the last line?
Seriously... what sort of a virus/trojan/worm makes its presence known by leaving the driver files around for any old userspace app to peruse???
Every time I come across a virus I am kind of disappointed at how easy they are to detect. They hook this and that, but then go and kill your antivirus software - a dead giveaway. That wouldn't trip up most home users, but then the malware also makes so many TCP connections that internet browsing doesn't work anymore, which means the user either wipes it and reinstalls, or takes it into the shop to get fixed. Actually finding where the thing is hiding is still a bit of a challenge, but the fact that they kill AV tools and pretty much anything from sysinternals, and the egress traffic they generate, is a dead giveaway that something is hiding there.
OTOH... maybe the perfect virus does exist and it's everywhere but nobody knows they have it...
As has been said in a thread nearby, the reason to play is so that some people bystanders who are unsure about god or science might be enlightened and saved from a life of ignorance.
Don't knock a life of ignorance unless you've tried it. A lot of creationists are perfectly happy in their beliefs and the world is no worse for it. A small and very vocal minority of creationists are mortally offended that anyone might have a belief that differs from theirs and go to great lengths to change the minds of others, but they are only marginally worse than the small and very vocal minority of athiests who do the same (the creationists only being worse through the virtue of being wrong :), and if there wasn't religion people would still find ways to be shitty to each other so be careful about blaming religion for all of the horrible things that happen.
I get what your saying, i'm just not particularly fussed about bystanders living a life of ignorance. A belief in a higher power seems to do some people a great deal of good, and if they also believe that their higher power created the earth just like the bible says then so be it (although I do start to worry if their literal interpretation of the bible doesn't end there...). Despite overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary, there is always the very remote and unlikely possibility that they are right...
Until you ask the question, "where did God come from".
From what i've read, the theory is that he was always there. Sounds simple to me.
And, Occam's Razor isn't the answer to any question. It isn't about answering questions. It's about balancing the realtive likelihood of several potential answers to a question which can't be proven.
Fair enough. The problem is that the people who believe the hardcore creationist stuff are a simple lot, and "God did it" is a very simple answer which can be molded to fit any conflicting evidence you choose to present. Fossils predating the supposed biblical age of the Earth? God put them there to tempt the non-believer. Why would he do that? Because he moves in mysterious ways. Duh.
With the answers "god did it" and "god moves in mysterious ways" at the ready, you'll be hard pressed to win an argument with a creationist, at least on their terms. The only way to win is not to play.
My answer to both of those questions is "everything" :p
Not this granola bullshit again. Science has methods to revise the wrongs. I haven't seen anyone updating the bible with new info. Hell, try it. A lot of fanatics would burn you at the stake for "desecrating" their "holy works".
The bible in wiki format would be... awesome. Although I somewhat suspect that's how it got to be the mess it's in now.
"Science" believed a whole lot of things that turned out not to be true too, and I bet you can find a whole lot of books with those "truths" in them for the creationists to waggle their finger at...
Weird, I see imaginary friend as the simpler explanation. Again, it's all about personal bias.
Me too. "God made the world in 7 days" sounds far simpler than anything science has come up with. As simple as the explanation might be though, I still don't believe in God. Occam might have been a smart guy but his razor isn't the answer to every question.
Even worse, have you ever seen a trained scientologist arguing his/her point? It's possible to 'win' a debate without being right as long as you know how to play the game.
wouldn't the outgassing of the plastics that the thing is made of reduce its weight by more than any change in electron configuration?
The summary is calling it "Industrial action by union employees". Most news outlets are just calling it a "strike". The needlessly long and obtuse description used here on the front page could be read to mean intentional equipment sabotage instead...
For some reason it seems that the word "strike" has become unpopular here in Australia, and the broader term "industrial action" has replaced it, or at least that's been my observation.
Sometimes it's desirable to put these scams under a spotlight, don't you think?
Definitely not. Try your best to cover them up so you can keep the conspiracy nuts away from the real truth.
If you hit the brakes hard enough you should be able to stall the engine, depending on the power of the brakes vs the power of the engine.
The only opposition I have heard is that vaccine might not be as effective as the manufacturer of the drug makes out, and in addition to the potential health benefits, they also get double the $$$ if boys are vaccinated too. Now it could be that the religious nuts are pushing the opposition while carefully not mentioning the S word... who knows.
I always wondered why they didn't vaccinate boys against german measles too. Maybe that's a long term strategy by the manufacturer of the drug? If everyone got vaccinated and the disease got eradicated there would be no more market for it. By only vaccinating the girls they ensure that the disease remains common enough to be a threat and they have a market for life, or at least until the patents run out. That theory runs contrary to the first paragraph though, but since when did a conspiracy have to make sense or be consistent with any other conspiracy? ;)
If nothing else, all the crap up there could be useful as reaction mass :)
Where is the outrage?
If you you read the fine print (you may need a microscope) you'll probably find that outrage is prohibited by the ToS.
ablockplus ftw!
I regularly visit youtube and nearly every music video on there has comments like 'vevo sucks' and I never figured out why all the fuss for an almost invisible watermark in the corner of the video... until I used it in IE one day.
If he wants to extend the range, he could try installing one of these...
He is one of the last actors I would imagine to play character like Turing, a thoughtful man, mathematician, scientist.. Everything Leo isn't.
He's an actor though, so given a reasonable script he can play a thoughtful man, mathematician, and scientist.
I know he's someone that it seems fashionable to hate but I've liked a lot of his movies.