Considering the primary reason Ireland has so many technology companies is because of the sweetheart deals it made on taxes, if this ruling stands, the stampede of companies exiting combined with the total absence of new companies to replace them would be pretty punishing. As far as "punishing Apple" goes, they have lawyers, and they're pretty smart I hear. They had to have known there was a risk this would happen. If a deal is too good to be true, it probably is -- unless your lawyers can work an even better deal. We will see.
Cool. So would money spent on things like bridges, schools, police, fire fighters, scientific research and space exploration, just to name a few, and those things have the benefit of making our society better, safer and smarter. The military is a fine thing, but it does jack shit for advancing the state of Humanity.
If the battery died then that would be a very strong indication of some problem. Probably they would suspect a defect in the manufacturing, but that would start the closer look that might just uncover foul play. Or not. If their logging/forensics is as bad as their security...
Leave it to a dumbassed AC drop a straw man to perfectly prove GP's point. Nobody said anything about disliking opposing viewpoints. GP was talking about how the kiddie table at/. has taken over the whole damn room, to the point where the signal:noise ratio is making the site more or less unusable. I used to come to/. for the insightful discussion and took it as a given that the editing would suck. Now the editing sucks and the discussion devolves to reactionary neckbeards whining about SJWs and trolls whining about how their third-grade level trolls aren't appreciated enough.
Go ahead. Tell us all about how you're being oppressed. Help! Help! I'm being oppressed! Violence inherent in the system!
Violence inherent in the system!
Simply blacklisting hateful speech doesn't cure the problem. It addresses a symptom, and will just push the abuse "underground" to a level where an AI can't detect it.
Sure, it's addressing the symptom, which is all that can be done, as there is no cure for assholism. It may be that addressing the symptom is sufficient for the purposes of sites such as Yahoo, since "driving it underground" is effectively equal to "driving it to some other website" and making it someone else's problem.
I'm not sure what can be done short of preventing anonymous interaction, because that seems to bring out the worst in people. Many notorious trolls tend to be cowards, and are mortified when their actions are associated with their real names.
You're right: as long as they can be anonymous, they're Superman, fearless and unstoppable. Gawd I'd love to see a site that used some sort of algorithm to follow *actual* hateful trolls (i.e. the kind that make death threats), crawl their posts and correlate them to an actual person and dox their asses and de-anonymize them. THAT is the kind of Social Justice Warrioring I could get behind.
Saying stupid shit should be protected. Saying hateful things should be protected. Speech consisting of anger, dissent, disagreement, or embarrassing revelations should all be sacrosanct. Making death threats because someone else said something that pisses you off? Fuck you. Hell no. You've just broken the compact.
No, but I'm completely in favor of you Russian-paid trolls shutting the fuck up due to your idiocy. Treason? Get the fuck outta here with that shit.
The incredibly, deliciously ironic thing is that despite Clinton's crazy-high unfavorable ratings, shes going to win the election and it's going to be the efforts of trolls like you that turn the tide. I mean, people don't really like Clinton, but they HATE foreign powers fucking with their democracy.
Your reasoning makes the assumption that improvements in medical treatment and life expectancy would not have occurred without the medical establishment, which of course is false.
You seem to have forgotten your citations and/or evidence here.
I would consider 'take off' to be 'getting out on the highway', and 'landing' to be 'leaving the highway',
Gosh! It's funny then that they have different words for the same exact thing then! I bet you consider "jumping off a cliff" and "jumping off a curb" to be the same thing too!
This is not me disagreeing with you on any of the substantial points you've made, but, they could very easily build a sensor into the steering wheel that detects if the hands have been removed and start a countdown with both visual and audio cues to "Please make sure your hands are on the wheel at all times! Autopilot will disengage in 10 seconds...".
In airplanes, the manufacturers build in a stick shaker that gives the pilot an unmistakable warning that something bad is happening and to fucking pay attention RIGHT NOW. For TCAS it gives verbal deconfliction warnings ("Turn left! Dive!") (and tells the other plane to "turn right! climb!"). Maybe a shocker isn't such a bad idea;)
Actually, in California more training is required to get a driver's license (56 hours behind the wheel) than a pilot's license (40 hours flight training time).
I think TOR is doing a great job, however, of protecting privacy from the likes of Google and Facebook. If that's your goal, TOR is a great tool.
I think you've really hit upon the crux of the "why do I care?" question.
For me, Tor is about securing my privacy from those who would exploit it; it's about securing my day-to-day rather pedestrian concerns which mainly revolve around not giving personal information to advertisers that I haven't consented to. Those do NOT include kiddie pr0n or anything that a nation-state would give a flying fuck about. I'm not trading in state secrets.
Therefore, for me, Tor is just fine. For people involved in kiddie pr0n or trading state secrets, well, fuck those guys. Not my problem.
A secret email server is a private email server that is not controlled by the government but by a private individual or other legal entity. Stop playing dumb.
Stop inventing definitions. @Tourney asked an honest question and your snark does not advance the discussion.
What Secretary Clinton did was exactly what every SecState before her had done, and what you or I would have done had we been SecState, and what Condoleeza Rice's, Colin Powell's AND Hillary Clinton's lawyers would have advised them to do, because there was no rule or law that prevented such actions, and it was an intelligent thing to do to have full control over the documents that involve you, not those who have at BEST no interest in protecting you and may have an interest in destroying you.
Or are you one of those who don't take tax deductions even though they are perfectly legal? Are you one of those people who state that "if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear?" Are you one of those people who supplies every document you ever create to an archive that may later fall into the hands of your enemies?
If you are in politics and are one of those people, you also are poor, naive and destroyed.
There is no reason that "hclinton@secstate.gov" could not be forwarded to "hillary@clinton.org" or whatever her private server email address was. Thus, to any SecState employee, it would look like a government address. The only one who would know is the mail server administrator who setup the forward.
Condi Rice and Colin Powell are Republicans. They're tough on national security dontchaknow, so they get a pass for all of the instances of confidential emails in their accounts...
Besides, when Hillary did it, she used a private email server; when Powell did it, he used a hotmail account, which is much more secure!
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Considering the primary reason Ireland has so many technology companies is because of the sweetheart deals it made on taxes, if this ruling stands, the stampede of companies exiting combined with the total absence of new companies to replace them would be pretty punishing. As far as "punishing Apple" goes, they have lawyers, and they're pretty smart I hear. They had to have known there was a risk this would happen. If a deal is too good to be true, it probably is -- unless your lawyers can work an even better deal. We will see.
Cool. So would money spent on things like bridges, schools, police, fire fighters, scientific research and space exploration, just to name a few, and those things have the benefit of making our society better, safer and smarter. The military is a fine thing, but it does jack shit for advancing the state of Humanity.
If the battery died then that would be a very strong indication of some problem. Probably they would suspect a defect in the manufacturing, but that would start the closer look that might just uncover foul play. Or not. If their logging/forensics is as bad as their security...
Thank you for this. It's reminded me that there still are intelligent people on /., capable of reasoned, rational argument.
Leave it to a dumbassed AC drop a straw man to perfectly prove GP's point. Nobody said anything about disliking opposing viewpoints. GP was talking about how the kiddie table at /. has taken over the whole damn room, to the point where the signal:noise ratio is making the site more or less unusable. I used to come to /. for the insightful discussion and took it as a given that the editing would suck. Now the editing sucks and the discussion devolves to reactionary neckbeards whining about SJWs and trolls whining about how their third-grade level trolls aren't appreciated enough.
Go ahead. Tell us all about how you're being oppressed. Help! Help! I'm being oppressed! Violence inherent in the system! Violence inherent in the system!
It's only in the short run that they fuck it up monstrously ;)
What is the difference between "hateful speech" (that you say exists) and "hate speech" (that you claim those who believe in are insane)?
Yet another AC making a glaringly stupid statement, in this case a false dichotomy between SJWs and Conservatives.
Sure, it's addressing the symptom, which is all that can be done, as there is no cure for assholism. It may be that addressing the symptom is sufficient for the purposes of sites such as Yahoo, since "driving it underground" is effectively equal to "driving it to some other website" and making it someone else's problem.
You're right: as long as they can be anonymous, they're Superman, fearless and unstoppable. Gawd I'd love to see a site that used some sort of algorithm to follow *actual* hateful trolls (i.e. the kind that make death threats), crawl their posts and correlate them to an actual person and dox their asses and de-anonymize them. THAT is the kind of Social Justice Warrioring I could get behind.
Saying stupid shit should be protected. Saying hateful things should be protected. Speech consisting of anger, dissent, disagreement, or embarrassing revelations should all be sacrosanct. Making death threats because someone else said something that pisses you off? Fuck you. Hell no. You've just broken the compact.
...and anonymous cowards hate saying things that aren't flamingly fucking stupid.
What is the difference between "hateful speech" (that you say exists) and "hate speech" (that you claim those who believe in are insane)?
Obviously they did this study exclusively with users of /.
No, but I'm completely in favor of you Russian-paid trolls shutting the fuck up due to your idiocy. Treason? Get the fuck outta here with that shit.
The incredibly, deliciously ironic thing is that despite Clinton's crazy-high unfavorable ratings, shes going to win the election and it's going to be the efforts of trolls like you that turn the tide. I mean, people don't really like Clinton, but they HATE foreign powers fucking with their democracy.
I'm not falling for that. He's on slashdot. He's never been laid, much less married.
You seem to have forgotten your citations and/or evidence here.
This is a perfect opportunity for Tesla to put a SuperCharger station along the path for a quick re-fuel on the way home! Wait...
No, he's an entirely different kind of circus clown.
Gosh! It's funny then that they have different words for the same exact thing then! I bet you consider "jumping off a cliff" and "jumping off a curb" to be the same thing too!
This is not me disagreeing with you on any of the substantial points you've made, but, they could very easily build a sensor into the steering wheel that detects if the hands have been removed and start a countdown with both visual and audio cues to "Please make sure your hands are on the wheel at all times! Autopilot will disengage in 10 seconds...".
In airplanes, the manufacturers build in a stick shaker that gives the pilot an unmistakable warning that something bad is happening and to fucking pay attention RIGHT NOW. For TCAS it gives verbal deconfliction warnings ("Turn left! Dive!") (and tells the other plane to "turn right! climb!"). Maybe a shocker isn't such a bad idea ;)
Actually, in California more training is required to get a driver's license (56 hours behind the wheel) than a pilot's license (40 hours flight training time).
Someday the FAA will buy modems that do more than 300 baud to transmit NOTAMS and we'll be able to read them in English, full words and everything!
I think you've really hit upon the crux of the "why do I care?" question.
For me, Tor is about securing my privacy from those who would exploit it; it's about securing my day-to-day rather pedestrian concerns which mainly revolve around not giving personal information to advertisers that I haven't consented to. Those do NOT include kiddie pr0n or anything that a nation-state would give a flying fuck about. I'm not trading in state secrets.
Therefore, for me, Tor is just fine. For people involved in kiddie pr0n or trading state secrets, well, fuck those guys. Not my problem.
Stop inventing definitions. @Tourney asked an honest question and your snark does not advance the discussion.
What Secretary Clinton did was exactly what every SecState before her had done, and what you or I would have done had we been SecState, and what Condoleeza Rice's, Colin Powell's AND Hillary Clinton's lawyers would have advised them to do, because there was no rule or law that prevented such actions, and it was an intelligent thing to do to have full control over the documents that involve you, not those who have at BEST no interest in protecting you and may have an interest in destroying you.
Or are you one of those who don't take tax deductions even though they are perfectly legal? Are you one of those people who state that "if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear?" Are you one of those people who supplies every document you ever create to an archive that may later fall into the hands of your enemies?
If you are in politics and are one of those people, you also are poor, naive and destroyed.
There is no reason that "hclinton@secstate.gov" could not be forwarded to "hillary@clinton.org" or whatever her private server email address was. Thus, to any SecState employee, it would look like a government address. The only one who would know is the mail server administrator who setup the forward.
Condi Rice and Colin Powell are Republicans. They're tough on national security dontchaknow, so they get a pass for all of the instances of confidential emails in their accounts...
Besides, when Hillary did it, she used a private email server; when Powell did it, he used a hotmail account, which is much more secure!