They've been doing this for years to catch child molester pervs. This is nothing new and is completely legal.
Have they been using the identity of real people to catch pervs? While I want the pervs off the streets, I'm not ok with them using someone's identity without that person's explicit permission.
May be now some of those candidates would know what it means to be on the receiving end of racism and look with some sympathy and understanding when black, brown, yellow Americans complain about it.
I am mostly White (I am part Blackfoot, but you wouldn't know it looking at me). I grew up in Hawaii. Only 30% of my high school was White. All the best jobs were reserved for native Hawaiians (Whites earned 75 cents for every dollar earned by Hawaiians). Anyone who was at least 5% native Hawaiian had access to free private education (non-natives were ineligible to even apply). I had White friends who had to be taken off island in the middle of the night because of race-based death threats. Every school had a Kill Hauoli Day in which any White student would get the crap kicked out of them (it's been at least 30 years since a hauoli actually died). Remember that different places have different racial minorities.
Many states are "right to work" states, which actually means the opposite of what it sounds like. In those states, you can be fired for any reason or no reason, so long as if there is a reason, it is not an illegal one. That is, you cannot be fired based on your ethnicity, for example. (At least in theory.)
Utah is a "right to work" state (unions are outlawed by state constitution). However, it is our status as a "work at will" state which means that either party can sever the contract for any reason (or no reason!).
I know a few couples that ended up going long term that met through text-based MUDS, MOOS, Sensi-Summinks, EWTOOs and EWTHREEs. They basically met with all text based profiles and messaging, and only afterwards did they have pics.
I was a member of eharmony.com for a year without any good results - they think having religion in common was enough to sustain a long lasting relationship. I went on two dates set up by that site. My wife was a member of ldssingles.com for a year without success. A mutual friend introduced us and we chatted for over a month before we exchanged photos. Over the course of 9 months we became romantically attracted to each other. Ten months later we had a fiancee visa, and got married 30 days after she got in country. Our relationship is going strong despite the challenges a newborn can present. From our experience, we got to know each other a lot more intimately than people dating off line because we couldn't spend our time making out or watching movies together.
"There's a joke among my sect. We are called Latter Day Saints (LDS)"
so you are a mormon?
Yes, I belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This is the largest sect within the Mormon denomination. I rarely call myself Mormon because most people can't distinguish between the various sects, and often confuse us with the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) led by Warren Jeffs.
from the reading i'm doing on authoritarians (both followers and leaders), ONLY about 20% of xtians have ACTUALLY read the bible completely... only 20% who think that the received wisdom of THEIR GOD is worth actually READING, much less studying or seriously debating about it...
isn't that odd ? ? ?
I'm among the Christians (you know that Christ in Greek begins with chi - often represented by x) who have read the entire canonized Bible. I have not read all the Apocrypha (not easily found in these parts). I question the value of the Song of Solomon, and skim over most of the genealogies. I tend to study by topic instead of cover to cover, but I complete the Bible every four years or so. I've read the Bible in both English (King James Version) and Portuguese (various translations based on the work of Joao Ferreira de Almeida). I do not speak Aramaic, Greek, or Latin, so I haven't approached translations in those languages. Studying in multiple languages gives excellent insight.
THEY proclaim it is the most important book in the his story of the universe, blah blah blah, but only about a fifth of them bother to read it...
There's a joke among my sect. We are called Latter Day Saints (LDS), so on multiple occasions our leaders have told us to be Latter Day Saints instead of Latter Day Aint's. Belonging to a particular sect means nothing if you don't study what that means and live the Gospel.
for some reason, whenever i see xtians and other religionists, the only thing i think their religion has done for them, is make them bigger liars and hypocrites than non-religious people; which i *thought* was the complete opposite of what was supposed to be the case...
Not everyone who follows a religion is a liar or hypocrite.
maybe of they read THE book a little closer... hee hee hee
What about debit cards that can be used like credit cards? What's the liability on those. My bank recently made a change and now all debit cards that are issued are Visa debit cards that have a valid Visa number, expiry date, and CCV/CSC and can be used in place of a credit card for online transactions, except that the money is pulled directly from my checking account. I really don't like this feature, but all their cards are like that now.
When you swipe a card, the merchant asks "Debit or credit?" if it's run as credit (often requiring a signature), then your liability is the same as a credit card. If you answered "debit" and provided a PIN, then your liability is the same as any other debit card.
Another poster correctly pointed out that the money is directly pulled from your checking account, so you will be minus that money while disputing the charges.
Nope, no programming jobs for American programmers. America is only for MBAs and bureaucrats. Programmers are elsewhere. Americans who don't want to be team players in the farcical football game that is the American "workplace" must necessarily be homeless and destitute, because there are no real jobs in America, none at all. Real work is done in the Overseas, not in America, because America is the land of the worthless.
Last I looked at the map, Brazil was part of America.
The question is: what is a reasonable distance? most EV have that question too.
I would say a "reasonable distance" would cover the daily needs of 90% of the general public. I accept that my needs are atypical, thus I will have to wait for an EV that meets my needs.
TFS mentions high quality video. You're not streaming high quality video with 10 or even 20Mbps.
Netflix recommends 5Mbps for HD streaming, so you are wrong.
When I called Netflix for tech support, they recommended 5MBps for HD streaming. However, their FAQ do say 5Mbps for HD streaming. Also note that they call 720p "HD". As we get more devices connected to the network and higher resolutions become standard, we will need more bandwidth.
"if traffic is going fast, you probably should go fast, too"
NO NO NO. For fuck sake. NO.
You do not have the privilege to speed just because everyone else thinks they do as well.
I'm assuming you're from the US? If that's a widespread mentality then no wonder you road toll is so high. Oh yeah, it is, good luck not being killed on the road dick head.
I am from the US, as it happens, but the same applies to all countries. Most traffic accidents occur when one vehicle goes substantially faster or slower than the general flow of traffic. You should try to safely match the traffic's velocity. Yes, you do need to adjust driving distances based on velocity and road conditions. No, if a single car is going 20mph over the speed limit it doesn't mean you should, too; However, if 90-95% of vehicles are going 10mph over the speed limit (very common here as cops rarely give speeding tickets if the infraction is 10mph or less), then you should try to match.
Besides, who cares how your speeding is detected? If you're speeding you're speeding. There's no "it's ok as long as I don't get caught"-clause.
I agree with you 98%. The system must detect if it's on public roads or private property, and also the flow of traffic (if traffic is going fast, you probably should go fast, too). I agree that our laws need to be obeyed even if there's little chance of getting caught.
Success in a test tube and/or monkeys doesn't mean much as far as hope for a drug viable for humans. After all, the trials for Tekmira's drug are on hold by the FDA due to safety concerns ( http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ho... ).
I don't know how to ethically do human trials for this. With monkeys, they infect them with the virus, then give the vaccine and see if the animal develops symptoms. Would we knowingly and purposefully infect humans with Ebola? Or are there enough people out there who have been exposed within three days and are as of yet symptom free? The particular strain of Ebola they tested with has a mortality rate of 90% - too high to responsibly give someone.
The Latter Day Saints Movement was never meant as a parody religion. Joseph Smith Jr truly believed what he preached. He saw inconsistencies among the various Christian sects of the day and the King James Translation of the Bible. What Joseph taught was supposed to remedy that; it was never meant to be taken as a work of fiction, or used to parody the mainstream. Whether he taught eternal truth is a matter of faith. I believe, you probably don't. Let's live and let live.
As another poster pointed out, the Flying Spaghetti Monster was created as a strawman to religion. The idea of the FSM is so ridiculous that no one would take it seriously, but there's just as much scientific evidence for this fantasy as for the creation stories of religions. People invoke the name of the FSM to mock treating religion as science, and to laugh at all blind faith.
Another modern example of a created religion is the Jedi movement. Jedi groups have a philosophy based on a fictional movie. We can trace down the origins. The creator is still alive and doesn't claim it was meant to become a religion.
Hell, they do that already, at least for their business accounts. I wanted static IPs so I bought a business account for my home. Every month or two I get a letter in the mail from Comcast offering "a free account review!" How kind of them to offer to upsell me for no extra charge, lol.
I have residential cable and business internet (yeah, for static IP). Every month or two, Comcast residential calls me up to get me to sign up for internet, and Comcast Business calls me to sell me cable TV. Both want me to sign up for phone service, too.
I'm actually surprised people still have CDs. My first gen ipod touch is smaller than a CD box and fits much more, plus I can easily change the contents when I bring it back home for a recharge/sync. For the record, still lasts about 10 days of playback in the car (omg battery not replaceable!).
While it's getting better, MP3s you legally buy have relatively low bitrates. With a CD, I can rip based on my requirements and limitations. For example, I can determine if space or quality is more important, given the storage size and qualities of my speakers. I still buy CDs to have a physical back-up in case of HD failure, and to be able to rip to a newer technology in the future.
If an application doesn't need to listen for connections, it shouldn't open a port. A firewall won't make any difference here.
If an application does need to listen for connections the firewall will need to let them through. Again, the firewall doesn't help - at least not at the level of sophistication you'd see in a home router's firewall.
Except I want my legal music collection to be accessible to computers within my home (DLNA server), but if external computers have access (without use of a VPN), I may be guilty of illegal sharing. Ditto for other things which should be available on a LAN, but not be public facing.
Frankly there's no excuse for any modern software to be vulnerable even if connected directly to the internet with no firewall. This isn't 2003 any more, and in any case it's commonplace for computers to be connected to all sorts of untrusted networks such as public wifi. So anything that assumes "a firewall will take care of it" is utterly irresponsible.
I think you misspoke. It's irresponsible to think an external firewall will take care of it, so every computer / virtual machine should have its own. However, it's asking for trouble to allow untrusted traffic to arrive to any software. Just being accessible opens it up for a DDoS attack.
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They've been doing this for years to catch child molester pervs. This is nothing new and is completely legal.
Have they been using the identity of real people to catch pervs? While I want the pervs off the streets, I'm not ok with them using someone's identity without that person's explicit permission.
If it's discrimination in favor of a minority, doesn't that make it affirmative action rather than discrimination?
Affirmative Action is sanctioned discrimination.
May be now some of those candidates would know what it means to be on the receiving end of racism and look with some sympathy and understanding when black, brown, yellow Americans complain about it.
I am mostly White (I am part Blackfoot, but you wouldn't know it looking at me). I grew up in Hawaii. Only 30% of my high school was White. All the best jobs were reserved for native Hawaiians (Whites earned 75 cents for every dollar earned by Hawaiians). Anyone who was at least 5% native Hawaiian had access to free private education (non-natives were ineligible to even apply). I had White friends who had to be taken off island in the middle of the night because of race-based death threats. Every school had a Kill Hauoli Day in which any White student would get the crap kicked out of them (it's been at least 30 years since a hauoli actually died). Remember that different places have different racial minorities.
There workaround is to use Google's public DNS (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4)???
Many states are "right to work" states, which actually means the opposite of what it sounds like. In those states, you can be fired for any reason or no reason, so long as if there is a reason, it is not an illegal one. That is, you cannot be fired based on your ethnicity, for example. (At least in theory.)
Utah is a "right to work" state (unions are outlawed by state constitution). However, it is our status as a "work at will" state which means that either party can sever the contract for any reason (or no reason!).
And "resources hog" is a relative term when desktops tend to now have 16GB+ memory and quad core 3ghz CPUs that are idle 24/7.
Where do you find reasonably priced desktops with 16+GB of RAM? From what I've seen, 8GB seems to be the norm for desktops.
I know a few couples that ended up going long term that met through text-based MUDS, MOOS, Sensi-Summinks, EWTOOs and EWTHREEs. They basically met with all text based profiles and messaging, and only afterwards did they have pics.
I was a member of eharmony.com for a year without any good results - they think having religion in common was enough to sustain a long lasting relationship. I went on two dates set up by that site. My wife was a member of ldssingles.com for a year without success. A mutual friend introduced us and we chatted for over a month before we exchanged photos. Over the course of 9 months we became romantically attracted to each other. Ten months later we had a fiancee visa, and got married 30 days after she got in country. Our relationship is going strong despite the challenges a newborn can present. From our experience, we got to know each other a lot more intimately than people dating off line because we couldn't spend our time making out or watching movies together.
"There's a joke among my sect. We are called Latter Day Saints (LDS)"
so you are a mormon?
Yes, I belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This is the largest sect within the Mormon denomination. I rarely call myself Mormon because most people can't distinguish between the various sects, and often confuse us with the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) led by Warren Jeffs.
from the reading i'm doing on authoritarians (both followers and leaders), ONLY about 20% of xtians have ACTUALLY read the bible completely... only 20% who think that the received wisdom of THEIR GOD is worth actually READING, much less studying or seriously debating about it... isn't that odd ? ? ?
I'm among the Christians (you know that Christ in Greek begins with chi - often represented by x) who have read the entire canonized Bible. I have not read all the Apocrypha (not easily found in these parts). I question the value of the Song of Solomon, and skim over most of the genealogies. I tend to study by topic instead of cover to cover, but I complete the Bible every four years or so. I've read the Bible in both English (King James Version) and Portuguese (various translations based on the work of Joao Ferreira de Almeida). I do not speak Aramaic, Greek, or Latin, so I haven't approached translations in those languages. Studying in multiple languages gives excellent insight.
THEY proclaim it is the most important book in the his story of the universe, blah blah blah, but only about a fifth of them bother to read it...
There's a joke among my sect. We are called Latter Day Saints (LDS), so on multiple occasions our leaders have told us to be Latter Day Saints instead of Latter Day Aint's. Belonging to a particular sect means nothing if you don't study what that means and live the Gospel.
for some reason, whenever i see xtians and other religionists, the only thing i think their religion has done for them, is make them bigger liars and hypocrites than non-religious people; which i *thought* was the complete opposite of what was supposed to be the case...
Not everyone who follows a religion is a liar or hypocrite.
maybe of they read THE book a little closer... hee hee hee
Every country has good food - except for Finland, of course. ;)
I LOVE pula!
What about debit cards that can be used like credit cards? What's the liability on those. My bank recently made a change and now all debit cards that are issued are Visa debit cards that have a valid Visa number, expiry date, and CCV/CSC and can be used in place of a credit card for online transactions, except that the money is pulled directly from my checking account. I really don't like this feature, but all their cards are like that now.
When you swipe a card, the merchant asks "Debit or credit?" if it's run as credit (often requiring a signature), then your liability is the same as a credit card. If you answered "debit" and provided a PIN, then your liability is the same as any other debit card.
Another poster correctly pointed out that the money is directly pulled from your checking account, so you will be minus that money while disputing the charges.
Nope, no programming jobs for American programmers. America is only for MBAs and bureaucrats. Programmers are elsewhere. Americans who don't want to be team players in the farcical football game that is the American "workplace" must necessarily be homeless and destitute, because there are no real jobs in America, none at all. Real work is done in the Overseas, not in America, because America is the land of the worthless.
Last I looked at the map, Brazil was part of America.
The question is: what is a reasonable distance? most EV have that question too.
I would say a "reasonable distance" would cover the daily needs of 90% of the general public. I accept that my needs are atypical, thus I will have to wait for an EV that meets my needs.
TFS mentions high quality video. You're not streaming high quality video with 10 or even 20Mbps.
Netflix recommends 5Mbps for HD streaming, so you are wrong.
When I called Netflix for tech support, they recommended 5MBps for HD streaming. However, their FAQ do say 5Mbps for HD streaming. Also note that they call 720p "HD". As we get more devices connected to the network and higher resolutions become standard, we will need more bandwidth.
You can't use a tablet on the SAT, probably not on the ACT, and definitely not in the classroom.
Maybe this is showing my age, but I wasn't allowed to use a calculator on the ACT
"if traffic is going fast, you probably should go fast, too"
NO NO NO. For fuck sake. NO.
You do not have the privilege to speed just because everyone else thinks they do as well.
I'm assuming you're from the US? If that's a widespread mentality then no wonder you road toll is so high. Oh yeah, it is, good luck not being killed on the road dick head.
I am from the US, as it happens, but the same applies to all countries. Most traffic accidents occur when one vehicle goes substantially faster or slower than the general flow of traffic. You should try to safely match the traffic's velocity. Yes, you do need to adjust driving distances based on velocity and road conditions. No, if a single car is going 20mph over the speed limit it doesn't mean you should, too; However, if 90-95% of vehicles are going 10mph over the speed limit (very common here as cops rarely give speeding tickets if the infraction is 10mph or less), then you should try to match.
Besides, who cares how your speeding is detected? If you're speeding you're speeding. There's no "it's ok as long as I don't get caught"-clause.
I agree with you 98%. The system must detect if it's on public roads or private property, and also the flow of traffic (if traffic is going fast, you probably should go fast, too). I agree that our laws need to be obeyed even if there's little chance of getting caught.
All we need is for white people to be at risk and the investment will be there:
http://www.theonion.com/articl...
Being White doesn't cut it; you need to be rich. BTW, why don't people give rich Blacks as much grief as they give rich Whites?
Success in a test tube and/or monkeys doesn't mean much as far as hope for a drug viable for humans. After all, the trials for Tekmira's drug are on hold by the FDA due to safety concerns ( http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ho... ).
I don't know how to ethically do human trials for this. With monkeys, they infect them with the virus, then give the vaccine and see if the animal develops symptoms. Would we knowingly and purposefully infect humans with Ebola? Or are there enough people out there who have been exposed within three days and are as of yet symptom free? The particular strain of Ebola they tested with has a mortality rate of 90% - too high to responsibly give someone.
How do you feel about the Latter Day Saints?
Wait... that isn't a parody religion too?
The Latter Day Saints Movement was never meant as a parody religion. Joseph Smith Jr truly believed what he preached. He saw inconsistencies among the various Christian sects of the day and the King James Translation of the Bible. What Joseph taught was supposed to remedy that; it was never meant to be taken as a work of fiction, or used to parody the mainstream. Whether he taught eternal truth is a matter of faith. I believe, you probably don't. Let's live and let live.
As another poster pointed out, the Flying Spaghetti Monster was created as a strawman to religion. The idea of the FSM is so ridiculous that no one would take it seriously, but there's just as much scientific evidence for this fantasy as for the creation stories of religions. People invoke the name of the FSM to mock treating religion as science, and to laugh at all blind faith.
Another modern example of a created religion is the Jedi movement. Jedi groups have a philosophy based on a fictional movie. We can trace down the origins. The creator is still alive and doesn't claim it was meant to become a religion.
Hell, they do that already, at least for their business accounts. I wanted static IPs so I bought a business account for my home. Every month or two I get a letter in the mail from Comcast offering "a free account review!" How kind of them to offer to upsell me for no extra charge, lol.
I have residential cable and business internet (yeah, for static IP). Every month or two, Comcast residential calls me up to get me to sign up for internet, and Comcast Business calls me to sell me cable TV. Both want me to sign up for phone service, too.
I'm actually surprised people still have CDs. My first gen ipod touch is smaller than a CD box and fits much more, plus I can easily change the contents when I bring it back home for a recharge/sync. For the record, still lasts about 10 days of playback in the car (omg battery not replaceable!).
While it's getting better, MP3s you legally buy have relatively low bitrates. With a CD, I can rip based on my requirements and limitations. For example, I can determine if space or quality is more important, given the storage size and qualities of my speakers. I still buy CDs to have a physical back-up in case of HD failure, and to be able to rip to a newer technology in the future.
And you can to this at the application layer. You do not need a firewall to restrict service to particular clients.
You seriously expect every piece of software to act as its own firewall, instead of a system-wide firewall?
If an application doesn't need to listen for connections, it shouldn't open a port. A firewall won't make any difference here. If an application does need to listen for connections the firewall will need to let them through. Again, the firewall doesn't help - at least not at the level of sophistication you'd see in a home router's firewall.
Except I want my legal music collection to be accessible to computers within my home (DLNA server), but if external computers have access (without use of a VPN), I may be guilty of illegal sharing. Ditto for other things which should be available on a LAN, but not be public facing.
Frankly there's no excuse for any modern software to be vulnerable even if connected directly to the internet with no firewall. This isn't 2003 any more, and in any case it's commonplace for computers to be connected to all sorts of untrusted networks such as public wifi. So anything that assumes "a firewall will take care of it" is utterly irresponsible.
I think you misspoke. It's irresponsible to think an external firewall will take care of it, so every computer / virtual machine should have its own. However, it's asking for trouble to allow untrusted traffic to arrive to any software. Just being accessible opens it up for a DDoS attack.