That Times story is incredibly self serving for 'Yelp'. The questions asked are phrased in ways so that the answer can only be positive to or about 'Yelp'. Furthermore this reads more like an informational advertisement than actual reporting. Im kinda disappointed that I wasted my time reading the f***ing article, since it offered no information whatsoever about why their salesmen have had the finger pointed at them, nor does it even directly inquire what their 'sales' campaign actually involves. BS story IMHO
So this guys proof is
"I don't get the names of people affected, just figures, and I saw the several of the people had met sexual partners through these sites," he said
Which means that facebook is the cause of an increase in syphilis?
Or maybe its this statement he made
"Social networking sites are making it easier for people to meet up for casual sex," Prof. Peter Kelly, director of pubic health in Teesside, told the paper. "There has been a fourfold increase in the number of syphilis cases detected, with more young women being affected."
Hmmm seems to me hes just made a bunch of inflammatory statements about something he has no data, proof, or clarity about.
So the story is, Public Health officer makes wild claims about facebook use and casual sex, when he should have just made a statement about using condoms.
Why is this being considered as news? Why wasnt this story vetted properly?
I wasn't so much thinking specifically of Polygraphs and their ilk, but rather the basis' of these systems of detection. There are voice stress detectors and well trained individuals as well, but they all require a base of standard human responses, altered slightly to your specific responses. It seems to me that there is a whole slew of individuals out there whom the 'standard human response' does not apply. If that is the case then although lie detection is not legally viable, its fairly wide usage by the police (for one) should be halted immediately. Some businesses will ask you to take a lie detection test for issues of theft and wrongdoing, you can refuse obviously, but the one person who is guilty would never even be suspected if the study is correct.
Point being even if it is used as a pointer or a narrower of suspects, those usages are totally suspect as well.
Wouldn't this mean that depending on your social, financial, or business stature, all lie detections systems will not work properly?
Do not lie detection systems rely on some basic similarities in physiological human response to achieve their goal?
For the instant we do find a substitute for war (video games/vr games) the more aggressive and violent of us will no longer be interested, as much as they were, in killing each other. Reminds me of Full Metal Jacket how the angry aggressive war-mongering drinkers hated the chilled out potheads cause they didn't wanna fight anymore. Video Games are a real threat people, can you imagine if those young minds actually had a clearer idea of what war was really like?
Why shouldn't they? For the first time in history we have the ability to reach every single citizen in an extremely timely manner. Not only that but we have complicated enough adding machines and databases to hold and collate all that data. Which means you could have the citizenries opinion on any matter in about a week. So where is the problem with the people (who are the government) voting on every single decision that affects them. The whole point of representatives was it would take too long to get decisions from everyone because of distance and communications shortcomings. Now that those shortfalls no longer exist, the government should be asking each and every one of us what we think. The lazyness of americans demands that the problem of decision making be taken from their hands (courts, special interest and lobbying groups, state representatives), that doesnt change the fact that all decisions made by their government are their decisions.
All of those points the UK has done either long before the US or worse than the US. In fact the UK does not even have anything in place to protect their citizens privacy. Albeit slightly crippled lately at least the US has that. Im a canuck and we're idiots too, at least we can admit it. Suffice it to say, so far all attempts at men leading men have failed utterly.
You mean Napster? The company that was sold for 121 million to Best buy? That was only sued 36 million total? Lemme see if I got the math right here....
Yeah, yeah sure looks to me like it went bad for them.
This increased the interest in TPB to the point of necessary sale to a third party. Mark my words they'll sell out, because a big media corporation will see it as a money maker.
How can this be a standard response to alternative fuel talk, of course the real problem is getting it up to production level! We have over 150 years of oil based infrastructure that we rely on, I understand the desire not to change our existing structure, but we absolutely have to! Burning dead plants and dinosaurs is a losing battle, it always will be. Having a negative arguement of "Geez looks expensive to get in motion." is not an acceptable stance. Everything is expensive to get started and build up. At some point however we will have to bite the bullet and start.
BWAHAHAHAHHAHA you actually think its men that are making you compete for attention? Try looking at your own gender, you silly women are all the same, claiming men make them dress up and watch their appearance and are judging them. Men enjoy women almost no matter what they are wearing or look like. Its women who are the catty, judgmental mental-cases who eviscerate each other with their in-gender-competitiveness. Oh and BTW if you want to be left alone, move to the woods, dont cry about men looking at you when you live in a society of 6 billion individuals.
Did you actually read that post? They have an entire building on a less than adequate connection. If you are concerned that much with your internet connection get fibre ran right into your box. If you are getting your connection through some total-building-insanity expect problems. Dont cry when several others are using their connection, for exactly what its designed for, entertainment.
That hit the nail on the head. For when handing out a patent you halt forward progress on that particular product or service. The really horrible part is that we are slowly painting ourselves into a corner, where we cannot forward development on anything because the instant we do we are infringing upon someones copyright/patent that happens to be the basis for our ideas/products. All human progress is built upon the progress of those before us. Imagining that every idea we have had has sprung from our foreheads unconnected and unrelated to anything we've ever seen or been in contact with is insanity. Reverse engineering is one of the most used tools our brain has, making it illeagle is very short sighted, just like patents, just like intellectual property, just like copyright. If you wanna protect your product/creation/idea keep improving it, so that those that do copy you will always be one step behind.
What EA and others need to do is realize that they have been sold snake oil. These anti-copy, DRM, and invasive copyright enforcement products SIMPLY DO NOT WORK. The are circumvented all the time. In fact its absolutely ridiculous that a money making entity would continue to spend money on a client-alienating product add-on that does not fufill its advertised intended purpose. This product does not function as intended and never has, the fact that companies like SecuROM and Starforce are still in business speaks volumes to their sales teams. Cheers to their exceptional sales skills, jeers to the stupidy of game producers for buying into it.
Its very shallow to assume people didnt vote because they were too lazy or uninterested. A large portion of those that dont vote, dont vote because they do not see the point. Its like from Southpark, if your choice was between a terd sandwich and a giant douche, I aint voting for either. What governments should allow for is a distinct vote telling them we are not happy with any choice. The democratic process has been horrendously stunted, special interest groups demand legislation regarding issues which most of us dont care about. My democratic choice is reduced to putting my hand on some guys shoulder and stating "Im with him no matter what he does stupid or not. And when he makes massive mistakes there are no consequences for him. So my needs will actually never be addressed because his attention will be occupied by screaming bleeding hearts." Its an unacceptable system with unacceptable choices that ahs stopped evolveing for the benefit of the common citizen.
I cannot understand the usage of a public system such as the justice system being perverted to act as a revenue stream for clearly underhanded groups of people. Its scary how twisted and shackled all our legal systems have become.
C'mon do you seriously expect that to be a valid arguement?
Their network is so insecure and faulty that some piece of 3rd party software that they do not specifically have a hand in designing, on an external piece of hardware not even hard connected to the network will crash said network.
Thats BS and you know it, if you are just playing devils advocate ok, but you sound alot like Qantas now.
This is a control issue pure and simple, someone has convinced google criminalizing their consumers is the way to go. The one phone I might have bought is out the window now too.
Clearly the sending of large mails-outs as well as possible subscriber losses would not be attempted or even conceived of by a money making entity, unless there were to be some financial benefit in the short term future.
Since those actions in and of themselves only cost money, they must be a precursor to the actual money maker. We have yet to see what the next step in this horror will be. If this is not halted at the state its in the next step where they make money is gonna be awfully offensive.
The ego on this guy. Not that any of those artists had talent or skill in their field that got their careers going. No, it was all-powerful EA that launched their careers. Bow to their marketing skill.
The first time some parent demanded the whole world change for fear their child may be affected by it, and the world complied, that was it the bed was made. Our desperate need to work harder and for longer hours has allowed us to class our governments as surrogate child rearers. You must personally be aware of what your children are into, wrapping them in bubble tape and putting blinders and earmuffs on them , only makes them want to see what they cannot, harder. As usual everyones rights get trampled because people are incapable of caring for, and having eyes on, their own offspring.
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That Times story is incredibly self serving for 'Yelp'. The questions asked are phrased in ways so that the answer can only be positive to or about 'Yelp'. Furthermore this reads more like an informational advertisement than actual reporting. Im kinda disappointed that I wasted my time reading the f***ing article, since it offered no information whatsoever about why their salesmen have had the finger pointed at them, nor does it even directly inquire what their 'sales' campaign actually involves. BS story IMHO
So this guys proof is "I don't get the names of people affected, just figures, and I saw the several of the people had met sexual partners through these sites," he said Which means that facebook is the cause of an increase in syphilis? Or maybe its this statement he made "Social networking sites are making it easier for people to meet up for casual sex," Prof. Peter Kelly, director of pubic health in Teesside, told the paper. "There has been a fourfold increase in the number of syphilis cases detected, with more young women being affected." Hmmm seems to me hes just made a bunch of inflammatory statements about something he has no data, proof, or clarity about. So the story is, Public Health officer makes wild claims about facebook use and casual sex, when he should have just made a statement about using condoms. Why is this being considered as news? Why wasnt this story vetted properly?
I wasn't so much thinking specifically of Polygraphs and their ilk, but rather the basis' of these systems of detection. There are voice stress detectors and well trained individuals as well, but they all require a base of standard human responses, altered slightly to your specific responses. It seems to me that there is a whole slew of individuals out there whom the 'standard human response' does not apply. If that is the case then although lie detection is not legally viable, its fairly wide usage by the police (for one) should be halted immediately. Some businesses will ask you to take a lie detection test for issues of theft and wrongdoing, you can refuse obviously, but the one person who is guilty would never even be suspected if the study is correct. Point being even if it is used as a pointer or a narrower of suspects, those usages are totally suspect as well.
Wouldn't this mean that depending on your social, financial, or business stature, all lie detections systems will not work properly? Do not lie detection systems rely on some basic similarities in physiological human response to achieve their goal?
For the instant we do find a substitute for war (video games/vr games) the more aggressive and violent of us will no longer be interested, as much as they were, in killing each other. Reminds me of Full Metal Jacket how the angry aggressive war-mongering drinkers hated the chilled out potheads cause they didn't wanna fight anymore. Video Games are a real threat people, can you imagine if those young minds actually had a clearer idea of what war was really like?
Why shouldn't they? For the first time in history we have the ability to reach every single citizen in an extremely timely manner. Not only that but we have complicated enough adding machines and databases to hold and collate all that data. Which means you could have the citizenries opinion on any matter in about a week. So where is the problem with the people (who are the government) voting on every single decision that affects them. The whole point of representatives was it would take too long to get decisions from everyone because of distance and communications shortcomings. Now that those shortfalls no longer exist, the government should be asking each and every one of us what we think. The lazyness of americans demands that the problem of decision making be taken from their hands (courts, special interest and lobbying groups, state representatives), that doesnt change the fact that all decisions made by their government are their decisions.
South Africa was part of the British Empire or the UK as it has become now. What exactly is your point again?
All of those points the UK has done either long before the US or worse than the US. In fact the UK does not even have anything in place to protect their citizens privacy. Albeit slightly crippled lately at least the US has that. Im a canuck and we're idiots too, at least we can admit it. Suffice it to say, so far all attempts at men leading men have failed utterly.
You mean Napster? The company that was sold for 121 million to Best buy? That was only sued 36 million total? Lemme see if I got the math right here.... Yeah, yeah sure looks to me like it went bad for them. This increased the interest in TPB to the point of necessary sale to a third party. Mark my words they'll sell out, because a big media corporation will see it as a money maker.
Uh the Khmer Rouge.
How can this be a standard response to alternative fuel talk, of course the real problem is getting it up to production level! We have over 150 years of oil based infrastructure that we rely on, I understand the desire not to change our existing structure, but we absolutely have to! Burning dead plants and dinosaurs is a losing battle, it always will be. Having a negative arguement of "Geez looks expensive to get in motion." is not an acceptable stance. Everything is expensive to get started and build up. At some point however we will have to bite the bullet and start.
BWAHAHAHAHHAHA you actually think its men that are making you compete for attention? Try looking at your own gender, you silly women are all the same, claiming men make them dress up and watch their appearance and are judging them. Men enjoy women almost no matter what they are wearing or look like. Its women who are the catty, judgmental mental-cases who eviscerate each other with their in-gender-competitiveness. Oh and BTW if you want to be left alone, move to the woods, dont cry about men looking at you when you live in a society of 6 billion individuals.
Did you actually read that post? They have an entire building on a less than adequate connection. If you are concerned that much with your internet connection get fibre ran right into your box. If you are getting your connection through some total-building-insanity expect problems. Dont cry when several others are using their connection, for exactly what its designed for, entertainment.
That hit the nail on the head. For when handing out a patent you halt forward progress on that particular product or service. The really horrible part is that we are slowly painting ourselves into a corner, where we cannot forward development on anything because the instant we do we are infringing upon someones copyright/patent that happens to be the basis for our ideas/products. All human progress is built upon the progress of those before us. Imagining that every idea we have had has sprung from our foreheads unconnected and unrelated to anything we've ever seen or been in contact with is insanity. Reverse engineering is one of the most used tools our brain has, making it illeagle is very short sighted, just like patents, just like intellectual property, just like copyright. If you wanna protect your product/creation/idea keep improving it, so that those that do copy you will always be one step behind.
What EA and others need to do is realize that they have been sold snake oil. These anti-copy, DRM, and invasive copyright enforcement products SIMPLY DO NOT WORK. The are circumvented all the time. In fact its absolutely ridiculous that a money making entity would continue to spend money on a client-alienating product add-on that does not fufill its advertised intended purpose. This product does not function as intended and never has, the fact that companies like SecuROM and Starforce are still in business speaks volumes to their sales teams. Cheers to their exceptional sales skills, jeers to the stupidy of game producers for buying into it.
Its very shallow to assume people didnt vote because they were too lazy or uninterested. A large portion of those that dont vote, dont vote because they do not see the point. Its like from Southpark, if your choice was between a terd sandwich and a giant douche, I aint voting for either. What governments should allow for is a distinct vote telling them we are not happy with any choice. The democratic process has been horrendously stunted, special interest groups demand legislation regarding issues which most of us dont care about. My democratic choice is reduced to putting my hand on some guys shoulder and stating "Im with him no matter what he does stupid or not. And when he makes massive mistakes there are no consequences for him. So my needs will actually never be addressed because his attention will be occupied by screaming bleeding hearts." Its an unacceptable system with unacceptable choices that ahs stopped evolveing for the benefit of the common citizen.
I cannot understand the usage of a public system such as the justice system being perverted to act as a revenue stream for clearly underhanded groups of people. Its scary how twisted and shackled all our legal systems have become.
C'mon do you seriously expect that to be a valid arguement? Their network is so insecure and faulty that some piece of 3rd party software that they do not specifically have a hand in designing, on an external piece of hardware not even hard connected to the network will crash said network. Thats BS and you know it, if you are just playing devils advocate ok, but you sound alot like Qantas now. This is a control issue pure and simple, someone has convinced google criminalizing their consumers is the way to go. The one phone I might have bought is out the window now too.
Clearly the sending of large mails-outs as well as possible subscriber losses would not be attempted or even conceived of by a money making entity, unless there were to be some financial benefit in the short term future. Since those actions in and of themselves only cost money, they must be a precursor to the actual money maker. We have yet to see what the next step in this horror will be. If this is not halted at the state its in the next step where they make money is gonna be awfully offensive.
The ego on this guy. Not that any of those artists had talent or skill in their field that got their careers going. No, it was all-powerful EA that launched their careers. Bow to their marketing skill.
The first time some parent demanded the whole world change for fear their child may be affected by it, and the world complied, that was it the bed was made. Our desperate need to work harder and for longer hours has allowed us to class our governments as surrogate child rearers. You must personally be aware of what your children are into, wrapping them in bubble tape and putting blinders and earmuffs on them , only makes them want to see what they cannot, harder. As usual everyones rights get trampled because people are incapable of caring for, and having eyes on, their own offspring.