Yes, but I'd be surprised if it weren't completely legal for the government to read your postcards: after all, if you wanted it private you'd have put it in an envelope.
Try looking a little deeper into the crystal ball.
If I can use my phone as a console, playing games on a large TV with a wireless controller, I am pretty certain that I'll also be able to use (or already wearing!) a wireless Bluetooth headset as well. The phone menu will allow me to answer my phone and chat to friends, or use Google+ Hangouts to have team based voice chat going. This doesn't seem like particularly far-fetched science fiction.
As an added bonus, you can bring your phone with you to your friend's house, and access your apps, your saved progress, your controller settings, your favorite servers, etc. I think that would be extremely awesome. God help you if you lose it or someone steals it, of course, but by then I'll hope to have Steam For Phones that will let me re-download anything I've bought already. (Does the Android market do that already?)
The default windows settings make it raise, but you can change that with a registry setting. I recall it being particularly annoying to find out how. If I didn't have to leave the office NOW, I'd try to find you some links.
it could be that men get 20% more because, as you said, men need to^W are expected to support their family and their status as breadwinner.
I sure hope not, especially as both genders have family-support roles.
As a professional at doing creative brain-stuff (software development), I would be shocked and appalled if someone were to suggest that an equally-skilled female coworker should get paid less than me simply because she's single and I'm not. Pay us for the value of our skills and contributions, not for our family role.
Here's a crib sheet, which is not a literal translation but enough to help you understand.
foolio: HR Drone shizznit: all of their pictures, friends background mofos: background investigators your personal junk: all your stuff. (Or, "your junk", if you're foolish enough to post pictures of such things. Ew.)
I realize you're criticizing his writing and choice of words, but it seemed pretty clear to me.:)
Much like fraudulent DMCA takedown requests, it's very hard to prove that your application was denied for illegal reasons, rather than "we found someone with better qualifications".
I love VirtuaWin. It's unobtrusive, and lets me use keyboard shortcuts to easily swap around. I haven't compared it with others, but I really like the same stuff you do: minimalist interface, ability to move/pin things to other (or all) desktops. I use focus-follows-mouse settings, though, so focus issues have never been a problem for me.
I'm tempted to say that we have Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter (and the Internet in general), and mobile devices that allow constant access. We had computers before, but not like this, and that fundamental change in the ways we communicate, collaborate, and stay in touch with what's happening to our friends is the driving force for making computers such a central part of our lives.
Can you elaborate on the games they play, and examples of how they are more violent than necessary?
From chess to Call of Duty, the objective of a game is to win. You don't (normally) win at chess by whittling down forces until the enemy decides they've had enough -- you corner them in a manner where they have no way out without death. (The actual 'kill' is basically N+2 moves away, and is implicit.) Many games only count a victory when you have wiped out the enemy, or razed all of their buildings (even the "farms").
It only takes once to have your life completely upended (for a duration that might be long or short). Perhaps they don't like the photos of your family swimming in that pond you visited. Perhaps they confiscate all your code + work + etc. Either way, you end up with (at the best) missing equipment and data, and in the worst case end up with legal troubles that are Very Large.
It definitely seems like the safest (if not most convenient) way is to travel without personal or business data on your laptop/tablet. When they fire it up, your bookmarks point at Gmail, Google Docs, and your company VPN site, and that's it. Your desktop has "Itinerary.pdf", your "documents" folder has nothing in it. It's sanitized enough not to arouse suspicion, and has clear links to "I work on remote crap" so that people don't think you're hiding something.
Also, it helps to not actually be hiding something. That way, if your machine IS confiscated, all your important data is still safe someplace else, and you're not waiting on your machine to be returned, which will never happen soon enough to be useful.
That would require a lot of very specialized knowledge about your model of printer. I'm sure professional counterfeiters can do it, but Joe Sixpack wanting to photoshop pictures of his dog onto some dollar bills will have a much harder time.
While I too dislike the idea of "border" checkponts, I have to wonder... why the hell would Geohot, let alone anyone, be carrying drugs? It seems tremendously foolish.
Printed reproductions, including photographs of paper currency, checks, bonds, postage stamps, revenue stamps, and securities of the United States and foreign governments (except under the conditions previously listed) are violations of Title 18, Section 474 of the United States Code.
If you never print it, does it still violate the code? Something to ask the local treasury department, I guess.
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You know, comparing RMS to Conan's uncompromising character is amusingly on-target. :) Thanks for making me nearly spit my drink, as that was awesome.
I didn't even realize there was an objective to the game.
Yes, but I'd be surprised if it weren't completely legal for the government to read your postcards: after all, if you wanted it private you'd have put it in an envelope.
Try looking a little deeper into the crystal ball.
If I can use my phone as a console, playing games on a large TV with a wireless controller, I am pretty certain that I'll also be able to use (or already wearing!) a wireless Bluetooth headset as well. The phone menu will allow me to answer my phone and chat to friends, or use Google+ Hangouts to have team based voice chat going. This doesn't seem like particularly far-fetched science fiction.
As an added bonus, you can bring your phone with you to your friend's house, and access your apps, your saved progress, your controller settings, your favorite servers, etc. I think that would be extremely awesome. God help you if you lose it or someone steals it, of course, but by then I'll hope to have Steam For Phones that will let me re-download anything I've bought already. (Does the Android market do that already?)
The default windows settings make it raise, but you can change that with a registry setting. I recall it being particularly annoying to find out how. If I didn't have to leave the office NOW, I'd try to find you some links.
it could be that men get 20% more because, as you said, men need to^W are expected to support their family and their status as breadwinner.
I sure hope not, especially as both genders have family-support roles.
As a professional at doing creative brain-stuff (software development), I would be shocked and appalled if someone were to suggest that an equally-skilled female coworker should get paid less than me simply because she's single and I'm not. Pay us for the value of our skills and contributions, not for our family role.
Facebook has two-factor authentication? I didn't know that.
I think this is only a good idea if you're not actually trying to get a job with that company.
Here's a crib sheet, which is not a literal translation but enough to help you understand.
foolio: HR Drone
shizznit: all of their pictures, friends
background mofos: background investigators
your personal junk: all your stuff. (Or, "your junk", if you're foolish enough to post pictures of such things. Ew.)
I realize you're criticizing his writing and choice of words, but it seemed pretty clear to me. :)
Much like fraudulent DMCA takedown requests, it's very hard to prove that your application was denied for illegal reasons, rather than "we found someone with better qualifications".
I'm sure it will be corrupted with parts that make it illegal to use alternate DNS providers...
Would keeping logs of the MACs that connect to your open wifi help? (" ____ is not my laptop, nor my pc, nor my refrigerator, nor any of our phones.")
I love VirtuaWin. It's unobtrusive, and lets me use keyboard shortcuts to easily swap around. I haven't compared it with others, but I really like the same stuff you do: minimalist interface, ability to move/pin things to other (or all) desktops. I use focus-follows-mouse settings, though, so focus issues have never been a problem for me.
Thanks for the SwitchDesk suggestion, though.
I'm tempted to say that we have Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter (and the Internet in general), and mobile devices that allow constant access. We had computers before, but not like this, and that fundamental change in the ways we communicate, collaborate, and stay in touch with what's happening to our friends is the driving force for making computers such a central part of our lives.
That's interesting. I'd be interested in seeing a chart with the industry revenue for movies, music, and video games all stacked together.
Can you elaborate on the games they play, and examples of how they are more violent than necessary?
From chess to Call of Duty, the objective of a game is to win. You don't (normally) win at chess by whittling down forces until the enemy decides they've had enough -- you corner them in a manner where they have no way out without death. (The actual 'kill' is basically N+2 moves away, and is implicit.) Many games only count a victory when you have wiped out the enemy, or razed all of their buildings (even the "farms").
I believe only agents of the government can be guilty of entrapment.
It only takes once to have your life completely upended (for a duration that might be long or short). Perhaps they don't like the photos of your family swimming in that pond you visited. Perhaps they confiscate all your code + work + etc. Either way, you end up with (at the best) missing equipment and data, and in the worst case end up with legal troubles that are Very Large.
It definitely seems like the safest (if not most convenient) way is to travel without personal or business data on your laptop/tablet. When they fire it up, your bookmarks point at Gmail, Google Docs, and your company VPN site, and that's it. Your desktop has "Itinerary.pdf", your "documents" folder has nothing in it. It's sanitized enough not to arouse suspicion, and has clear links to "I work on remote crap" so that people don't think you're hiding something.
Also, it helps to not actually be hiding something. That way, if your machine IS confiscated, all your important data is still safe someplace else, and you're not waiting on your machine to be returned, which will never happen soon enough to be useful.
That would require a lot of very specialized knowledge about your model of printer. I'm sure professional counterfeiters can do it, but Joe Sixpack wanting to photoshop pictures of his dog onto some dollar bills will have a much harder time.
Don't worry, I modded you just as +Insightful as the other one! :D
While I too dislike the idea of "border" checkponts, I have to wonder ... why the hell would Geohot, let alone anyone, be carrying drugs? It seems tremendously foolish.
What if you merely named your business, "The Law Offices of Murphy, Schneier, and Bohr", but did not actually claim that YOU were a lawyer? :-)
Printed reproductions, including photographs of paper currency, checks, bonds, postage stamps, revenue stamps, and securities of the United States and foreign governments (except under the conditions previously listed) are violations of Title 18, Section 474 of the United States Code.
If you never print it, does it still violate the code? Something to ask the local treasury department, I guess.
I believe they'd face prior art in the Dewey Decimal system. :)
Could I send them a drawing of a spider instead?