Store cameras are different, you're only under surveillance while under their property, and sane personal data protection laws will prevent them from sharing that footage.
The Police request CCTV footage from us all the time and I'm told to hand it over to them, even though we're a private company. When you're in public, you're likely traceable.
Likewise you don't have to be watched all the time online for people to be able to trace your movements, they can request info from your ISP if there is a valid reason to. I find it weird that ISPs wouldn't keep logs on what is going through their systems as a matter of course (even if they only keep the data for a few days or something). Just because nobody is watching you all the time doesn't mean you can't be traced later.
I didn't say that people "can't" protect their conversations, I said they should stop acting like other people shouldn't be allowed to record them if they're in a public space. If they want to protect their information transfer there are plenty of secure options available. I don't think any of these things should be banned (as they are very important for general security as well as privacy), but I also think that someone who wants every single thing they do to be encrypted or hidden away no matter how trivial it is, is quite simply a paranoid moron.
btw by things "worthy of hiding" I mean dissent in a totalitarian regime and such.
"If I do nothing wrong, why should I be watched" is like saying we'd be better off without Police patrols or CCTV. I'd much rather have some deterrent for criminals. It is wrong to invade people's private space yes, but when you are online you are not in a private space any more than you are when you're walking down the street or being filmed by security inside a store.
*insert stupid quote by some American ex-president about liberty and security and sacrifices and deserving neither here*
Life is always about finding a balance. Not letting things get too far towards 100% "liberty" (which would simply be Anarchy), and not letting things get too far towards a Police state. Obviously some people do do things that are wrong, and there is no guarantee of knowing who these people are beforehand. It is good to have logs/monitoring in place so that when people do break the law, they can be held accountable.
Wrong and illegal are different things for a start. If you do have something worthy of hiding, then fine - hide it. But most people really don't. Their lives are as boring as soup.
How is it a fallacy? I really don't give a crap who knows what I'm doing online, because 1) I don't do anything illegal, and 2) I don't have any moral issues with porn.
And Mark Zuckerberg is an asshole who certainly hasn't done anything to help the "dumb fucks" he refers to. He makes a living off of them in fact. He can collect all the info he wants on me, but it's pretty pointless as I either block or ignore ads on principal.
It makes you wonder, what kind of embarrassing porn are these guys into that their privacy is such a big deal..? "gaymidgetsinleatherbikiniseatingoverripebananas.com"? Honestly, I understand security concerns, but I don't get the whole online "privacy" issue unless you're actually doing something illegal.
My point was that this system is simply pure profit for no effort. It's a tax made possible by Facebook's monopoly-like status.
Yes, profits can be put back into R&D but that's not got anything to do with what I was talking about. I was simply stating that after a short while of recouping development costs, this 30% tax on game tokens is all profit for Facebook.
People transfer one essentially worthless measure of value into another, yes. Real life money is almost no use by itself, it's only because of a strange kind of social contract that we regard it as having any value. People obviously must perceive value in virtual currency or they wouldn't buy any. So it's a kind of meta-currency - slightly less useful than real money, but still valuable to the individual.
It is all profit after they recuperate the costs of the upgrade, which I doubt will take long. And then it is all pure profit, forever, with no work necessary.
Yep, I don't do so much as low carb as "natural carb", though it started off as low carb until I was losing too much weight.
So much of what people eat these days is just nowhere near what their bodies have evolved to cope with. It's pretty sad how people these days basically rely on sugar highs and alcohol to add interest to their lives.
I only eat wholemeal bread and brown rice, don't do potatoes, carrots, malt bread etc unless I have no other choice for carbs in a meal:/ I don't really like wholemeal pasta much otherwise I'd probably eat that a lot too.
I do drink full fat milk which is 5% sugar but meh, I think the benefits outweigh the negatives there. I eat pretty much all the fat I want (and surprise surprise, I'm not fat!):p I know trans fats are bad but there doesn't seem to be any conclusive evidence about other types of fat being a problem.
So not only are they donating to charity, they're doing it with money they don't even have yet
We're talking about Nintendo here, not some recent startup. They made 2.45 billion dollars profit from March last year to this year - and that's down on the year before because of the poor global economy. They're in the "risking nothing" category with this one.
I lost 20lbs, by going for regular walks and eating less. People still thought I was skinny even before that, but I was *just* under the "obese" line on Wii Fit. I didn't realise until after I lost the weight how much fat I had on me. Though I'm sure some of what I lost will have been muscle, I have been build my weight back up again for the last few months by going to the gym.
If people are too fat then exercise may help, but the obvious thing to do is to stop eating and drinking sugar/white flour enhanced shit and fries. They both raise your blood sugar far too quickly for your body to actually be able to use the energy, and so you end up just storing most of it as fat. I see exercise as a way to build muscle and to feel healthy - it's a very simple matter to lose weight through eating more intelligently.
That wasn't a suicide bombing, that was him trying to hug his girlfriend. While both their houses were alike in dignity, it turned out that their physical differences were too much for even love to overcome.
The Princeston WordNet has the same definition, presumably because of its common usage.
Anyway, have a look at http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Irony#Usage_controversy . Even the modernly accepted version of irony doesn't always follow the pure meaning of the original word.. words change over time, annoying as it is for those of us who know the real meaning behind words and phrases (I usually do, though I was taught the meaning of irony by what is obviously a rather confused world).
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I doubt Windows Mobile (ie, an OS developed for ARM based smartphones and PDAs) has much in common with desktop versions of Windows..
He may or may not be guilty of anything
I've never actually done any research into the guy, but from all the stories up here I can pretty much tell he's a douche.
Why do you expect Windows Mobile 7 to have a 10GB footprint?
Store cameras are different, you're only under surveillance while under their property, and sane personal data protection laws will prevent them from sharing that footage.
The Police request CCTV footage from us all the time and I'm told to hand it over to them, even though we're a private company. When you're in public, you're likely traceable.
Likewise you don't have to be watched all the time online for people to be able to trace your movements, they can request info from your ISP if there is a valid reason to. I find it weird that ISPs wouldn't keep logs on what is going through their systems as a matter of course (even if they only keep the data for a few days or something). Just because nobody is watching you all the time doesn't mean you can't be traced later.
I didn't say that people "can't" protect their conversations, I said they should stop acting like other people shouldn't be allowed to record them if they're in a public space. If they want to protect their information transfer there are plenty of secure options available. I don't think any of these things should be banned (as they are very important for general security as well as privacy), but I also think that someone who wants every single thing they do to be encrypted or hidden away no matter how trivial it is, is quite simply a paranoid moron.
Why would you need a headset when you already have a phone implanted in your head?
btw by things "worthy of hiding" I mean dissent in a totalitarian regime and such.
"If I do nothing wrong, why should I be watched" is like saying we'd be better off without Police patrols or CCTV. I'd much rather have some deterrent for criminals. It is wrong to invade people's private space yes, but when you are online you are not in a private space any more than you are when you're walking down the street or being filmed by security inside a store.
*insert stupid quote by some American ex-president about liberty and security and sacrifices and deserving neither here*
Life is always about finding a balance. Not letting things get too far towards 100% "liberty" (which would simply be Anarchy), and not letting things get too far towards a Police state. Obviously some people do do things that are wrong, and there is no guarantee of knowing who these people are beforehand. It is good to have logs/monitoring in place so that when people do break the law, they can be held accountable.
Wrong and illegal are different things for a start. If you do have something worthy of hiding, then fine - hide it. But most people really don't. Their lives are as boring as soup.
The arm doubled as a penis, snapped off during sex and stays inside the female’s body.
Yep, this has happened to me quite a few times. I'm just glad these things grow back!
How is it a fallacy? I really don't give a crap who knows what I'm doing online, because 1) I don't do anything illegal, and 2) I don't have any moral issues with porn.
And Mark Zuckerberg is an asshole who certainly hasn't done anything to help the "dumb fucks" he refers to. He makes a living off of them in fact. He can collect all the info he wants on me, but it's pretty pointless as I either block or ignore ads on principal.
It makes you wonder, what kind of embarrassing porn are these guys into that their privacy is such a big deal..? "gaymidgetsinleatherbikiniseatingoverripebananas.com"? Honestly, I understand security concerns, but I don't get the whole online "privacy" issue unless you're actually doing something illegal.
My point was that this system is simply pure profit for no effort. It's a tax made possible by Facebook's monopoly-like status.
Yes, profits can be put back into R&D but that's not got anything to do with what I was talking about. I was simply stating that after a short while of recouping development costs, this 30% tax on game tokens is all profit for Facebook.
They're already doing that, so if they're already making a profit then this is just extra profit.
people pay real money for virtual money?
People transfer one essentially worthless measure of value into another, yes. Real life money is almost no use by itself, it's only because of a strange kind of social contract that we regard it as having any value. People obviously must perceive value in virtual currency or they wouldn't buy any. So it's a kind of meta-currency - slightly less useful than real money, but still valuable to the individual.
It is all profit after they recuperate the costs of the upgrade, which I doubt will take long. And then it is all pure profit, forever, with no work necessary.
I pity the guy who has to find a way to monetize the virtual currency of a game that's inside a social network, inside internet.
Somehow I doubt he'll care when he's a millionaire..
Could you at least put some kind of spoiler alert before waving your geek-penis around?
Statistically improbable!
Yep, I don't do so much as low carb as "natural carb", though it started off as low carb until I was losing too much weight.
So much of what people eat these days is just nowhere near what their bodies have evolved to cope with. It's pretty sad how people these days basically rely on sugar highs and alcohol to add interest to their lives.
In other words its not that they know what I do, its do they know, specifically, who I am
Bruce Wayne: It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.
I only eat wholemeal bread and brown rice, don't do potatoes, carrots, malt bread etc unless I have no other choice for carbs in a meal :/ I don't really like wholemeal pasta much otherwise I'd probably eat that a lot too.
I do drink full fat milk which is 5% sugar but meh, I think the benefits outweigh the negatives there. I eat pretty much all the fat I want (and surprise surprise, I'm not fat!) :p I know trans fats are bad but there doesn't seem to be any conclusive evidence about other types of fat being a problem.
So not only are they donating to charity, they're doing it with money they don't even have yet
We're talking about Nintendo here, not some recent startup. They made 2.45 billion dollars profit from March last year to this year - and that's down on the year before because of the poor global economy. They're in the "risking nothing" category with this one.
I lost 20lbs, by going for regular walks and eating less. People still thought I was skinny even before that, but I was *just* under the "obese" line on Wii Fit. I didn't realise until after I lost the weight how much fat I had on me. Though I'm sure some of what I lost will have been muscle, I have been build my weight back up again for the last few months by going to the gym.
If people are too fat then exercise may help, but the obvious thing to do is to stop eating and drinking sugar/white flour enhanced shit and fries. They both raise your blood sugar far too quickly for your body to actually be able to use the energy, and so you end up just storing most of it as fat. I see exercise as a way to build muscle and to feel healthy - it's a very simple matter to lose weight through eating more intelligently.
That wasn't a suicide bombing, that was him trying to hug his girlfriend. While both their houses were alike in dignity, it turned out that their physical differences were too much for even love to overcome.
The Princeston WordNet has the same definition, presumably because of its common usage.
Anyway, have a look at http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Irony#Usage_controversy . Even the modernly accepted version of irony doesn't always follow the pure meaning of the original word.. words change over time, annoying as it is for those of us who know the real meaning behind words and phrases (I usually do, though I was taught the meaning of irony by what is obviously a rather confused world).
I was referring more to the original iMac, then the coloured range of iMacs etc. Before that, computers were all pretty much just beige boxes.