Transgenderism pretty much destroys gender as a static concept, so feminism seems to now be a movement that can include anyone at any given time, depending on their instantaneous self-identification.
Which is likely to last as long as the ACLU's support, given that sane people are offended that their teenage daughters are being confronted with biological males in bathrooms, which breaks down much support for transanything.
Yes, And I'm interested now in how dual DNS would work for most devices. How would Google resolve if the US domain google.com were competing with an EU service of google.com.eu, or the French version google.com.fr? Plainly nations would force software vendors to make their root DNS primary, and possibly even block competing root zones.
And then we have Balkanization, with France blocking the US, former French colonies blocking France, chaos. Really cool. Get the popcorn and drinks.
And there is the 'European' idea of a 'right to be forgotten'. Which is really either the 'right to be forgiven', or the 'right to conceal the past'.
Sure, giving any meaningful control over the Internet to other nations couldn't possibly go wrong for us in the USA. Let's leave this as it is for a while, and if other nations or coalitions choose to form independent DNS systems, then fine. They can restrict access to Google, Apple, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, etc, or try to force these services to accomodate dual DNS registrations and resolution. That'll work real well.
No other nation on earth can be trusted to defend liberty as much as the US, even in our current failing state.
Please, Try to keep up. Cruz was even more dangerous to the GOP leadership than Trump. He was not merely expendable, he was to be defeated first. Trump they would deal with later. And later is coming soon.
PS- calling Republicans sociopaths is juvenile. Really.
The opportunity to influence events and control destiny is irresistible. And it should be expected, anticipated, and so diminished and ultimately defeated.
Hillary is plainly an unindicted felon, a reasonable conclusion given the public statements made so far by so many credible sources. While it may disrupt the election and cause much chaos politically if she were in fact indicted, and worse if she were convicted, more likely she will be either pardoned or merely escape indictment. No action will bring all of the involved institutions into disrepute, but most of them already enjoy terrible reputations with the public, so there is little lost there. And the powers that support her are without shame or conscience, either believing they are in the right to implement their agendas, or they will take power by any means. No one should be surprised if she escapes judgment and stands for election. You who would challenge my assertion that the public record is sufficient to find her at least under substantial suspicion of criminal acts should avoid trolling me on this - my mind is made up, and if you have not already examined the record, you are not likely to do so now, and I understand. Hillary can win in November if she gets enough Berners to give in and vote for the lesser of two evils - Corruption v. Not Liberal.
Trump is, first, not a Republican. No, he is not. But he is much less a Democrat, and if he planned to run an insurgent campaign from the beginning, he certainly would not oppose Hillary with a party in total accordance with her candidacy. He has been masterful in his campaign, but that is not a good thing for the GOP. His appeal is only heightened by the abject failure of GOP leadership to actually function as an opposition party in Congress. Whatever the reasons, the GOP leadership has abdicated that role, and are now merely figureheads maintaining their personal power, prestige, and wealth. Trump is being the authentic Donald Trump, a creature New Yorkers know well, and he has mixed business acumen with instinct and opportunistic actions to wear down his opponents. Successfully. he is invincible if he can navigate the next 5 months without a major gaffe, and if he can successfully isolate Hillary and paint her with her own brush. Maybe.
The only question for the general election in November seems, now, to be which side the media will choose, since that is the side that will win. And Google, Facebook, et al are the new media, same as the old media.Of course they will exert their influence and control to their own advantages, severally and individually. How do we, individuals, survive this? By being as suspicious of all media as we are of all politicians and business. They are all out to manipulate us. Know this when you read or listen or watch them, always.
If this is a cyber war we are engaged in, mere defense is not enough. DDOSing botnets for instance, or counterattacks directly against black hats, but it's fair, as in all's fair in love and war.
I can see where a botnet seeking known MAC addresses and hammering them might result in black hats having to come up with new laptops, changing LAA, spending time responding to counterattacks, which impedes them at least minimally. Good work.
"Are you saying that a site that doesn't notice the 0.10 € payments in their bookkeeping for a year is without blame?"
Cliff Stoll saw a $0.75 error and followed it to Markus Hess, exposing a deliberate espionage effort.
"it's probably not that hard to bury a few 10-cent pizza transactions among tens of thousands, and escape even a detailed audit"
If so, it's not a detailed audit. But that particular 'free pizza' hack could have been have been averted, probably, by adding ion a check for the cheapest menu item available, and then refusing the amount when it was lower. All of which is much harder than just coding it right in the first place. IANAP, but I can conceive of a few techniques - ignore the price in the link, and keep it internally to be used for processing the transaction, which will cause problems for split tenders, but that's poorly supported anyways.
I'm not sure I agree. If a private party DDOS'd your blog site, are they infringing on your free speech? If they aren't your service provider, software vendor, etc, they seem to have intent to do so, and I'm surprised you think it matters WHO is infringing.
And limiting this to government allows for much mischief.
My current phone is an HTC ONE M8. The nonremovable battery is past its prime, so I'm not very worried abuot getting Android N.
Lesson Zero - removable battery. Must have.
Lesson One - Style is not more important than substance.
Lesson Two - RAM is king. More is better. More RAM is the enabler of future upgrades.
So my next phone will have more RAM, removable battery, and not be too ugly. And would I pay for the extra update to a then - current Android? Yes, if it included patches, and not too expensive. Subscription? Let me tell you a story.
Amazon would sell me a variety of items cheaper if I agreed to a subscription to buy more of a consumable item. The most recent example is a replacement cartridge for my Brain Series 7 shaver. Recommended interval is 18 months. They would give me a price break on this? Like in 3 years I would agree to buy 2 more? Really? I see the cleaning cartridges as an opportunity, but actually those last me so long I'm not ready to get on the recommended-interval-treadmill.
Subscription is the future of consumer goods. Lock the consumer in. Sell on *your* schedule. Own the consumer.
But for a phone, it may be inevitable that they will push a subscription to go past the 'regular' upgrade cycle. Whatever that is.
Google, this is how you monetize Android. You're welcome.
"Yes it can. Remember, the 4th amendment is based around your person, affects and residence. Email is typically stored by a third party, thus is not protected by the 4th."
So paper, postal mail, is likewise not protected? Much law is written recognizing and enforcing such a right, and so must be extended to electronic mail.
Does my residence no longer deserve protection when I leave it for work? No. My personal possessions, despite being removed from my presence, are still mine, and a reasonable expectation of privacy, security, is not diminished merely because I choose to use a door lock that the authorities can open surreptitiously, and so it should be with electronic possessions. In fact, despite my leaving my home unlocked, the authorities should know, and should be expected to know, that I did not give them consent to enter and rifle through my possessions merely because I did not secure it. A thief has no excuse, they are tried and found guilty despite my failing to lock the door. The authorities, unless they would use the thief's defense, that they did it because 'they could', have less excuse. They should know better.
And that they grant themselves permission to do what they ought not do proves it.
Vote them all out. All of them. Suffer only those who have not already betrayed you. And that is a short list indeed.
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Yes it's much worse elsewhere, almost everywhere.
Your CPU was probably conceived of and designed in the U.S. And made wherever.
Probably.
Transgenderism pretty much destroys gender as a static concept, so feminism seems to now be a movement that can include anyone at any given time, depending on their instantaneous self-identification.
Which is likely to last as long as the ACLU's support, given that sane people are offended that their teenage daughters are being confronted with biological males in bathrooms, which breaks down much support for transanything.
"The chance that the UN will start pulling .com addresses for porn or hate sites is small,"
And you base this opinion on what? Only UN incompetence is plausible. Most member nations would burn the US flat if they could.
Yes, And I'm interested now in how dual DNS would work for most devices. How would Google resolve if the US domain google.com were competing with an EU service of google.com.eu, or the French version google.com.fr? Plainly nations would force software vendors to make their root DNS primary, and possibly even block competing root zones.
And then we have Balkanization, with France blocking the US, former French colonies blocking France, chaos. Really cool. Get the popcorn and drinks.
And there is the 'European' idea of a 'right to be forgotten'. Which is really either the 'right to be forgiven', or the 'right to conceal the past'.
Sure, giving any meaningful control over the Internet to other nations couldn't possibly go wrong for us in the USA. Let's leave this as it is for a while, and if other nations or coalitions choose to form independent DNS systems, then fine. They can restrict access to Google, Apple, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, etc, or try to force these services to accomodate dual DNS registrations and resolution. That'll work real well.
No other nation on earth can be trusted to defend liberty as much as the US, even in our current failing state.
Please, Try to keep up. Cruz was even more dangerous to the GOP leadership than Trump. He was not merely expendable, he was to be defeated first. Trump they would deal with later. And later is coming soon.
PS- calling Republicans sociopaths is juvenile. Really.
The opportunity to influence events and control destiny is irresistible. And it should be expected, anticipated, and so diminished and ultimately defeated.
Hillary is plainly an unindicted felon, a reasonable conclusion given the public statements made so far by so many credible sources. While it may disrupt the election and cause much chaos politically if she were in fact indicted, and worse if she were convicted, more likely she will be either pardoned or merely escape indictment. No action will bring all of the involved institutions into disrepute, but most of them already enjoy terrible reputations with the public, so there is little lost there. And the powers that support her are without shame or conscience, either believing they are in the right to implement their agendas, or they will take power by any means. No one should be surprised if she escapes judgment and stands for election. You who would challenge my assertion that the public record is sufficient to find her at least under substantial suspicion of criminal acts should avoid trolling me on this - my mind is made up, and if you have not already examined the record, you are not likely to do so now, and I understand. Hillary can win in November if she gets enough Berners to give in and vote for the lesser of two evils - Corruption v. Not Liberal.
Trump is, first, not a Republican. No, he is not. But he is much less a Democrat, and if he planned to run an insurgent campaign from the beginning, he certainly would not oppose Hillary with a party in total accordance with her candidacy. He has been masterful in his campaign, but that is not a good thing for the GOP. His appeal is only heightened by the abject failure of GOP leadership to actually function as an opposition party in Congress. Whatever the reasons, the GOP leadership has abdicated that role, and are now merely figureheads maintaining their personal power, prestige, and wealth. Trump is being the authentic Donald Trump, a creature New Yorkers know well, and he has mixed business acumen with instinct and opportunistic actions to wear down his opponents. Successfully. he is invincible if he can navigate the next 5 months without a major gaffe, and if he can successfully isolate Hillary and paint her with her own brush. Maybe.
The GOP primary was decided when Trump stated on Fox News that "His (Ted Cruz) father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald's being — you know, shot. I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous", and no one, virtually no one challenged such an unsupportable, plainly fantastic and questionable claim, I don't doubt that Ted Cruz met with his advisers and essentially asked why, in a campaign where the truth no longer matters, should he try to run on a platform of anything rational when Trump can say literally anything without being called on it.
The only question for the general election in November seems, now, to be which side the media will choose, since that is the side that will win. And Google, Facebook, et al are the new media, same as the old media.Of course they will exert their influence and control to their own advantages, severally and individually. How do we, individuals, survive this? By being as suspicious of all media as we are of all politicians and business. They are all out to manipulate us. Know this when you read or listen or watch them, always.
If this is a cyber war we are engaged in, mere defense is not enough. DDOSing botnets for instance, or counterattacks directly against black hats, but it's fair, as in all's fair in love and war.
I can see where a botnet seeking known MAC addresses and hammering them might result in black hats having to come up with new laptops, changing LAA, spending time responding to counterattacks, which impedes them at least minimally. Good work.
"Are you saying that a site that doesn't notice the 0.10 € payments in their bookkeeping for a year is without blame?"
Cliff Stoll saw a $0.75 error and followed it to Markus Hess, exposing a deliberate espionage effort.
"it's probably not that hard to bury a few 10-cent pizza transactions among tens of thousands, and escape even a detailed audit"
If so, it's not a detailed audit. But that particular 'free pizza' hack could have been have been averted, probably, by adding ion a check for the cheapest menu item available, and then refusing the amount when it was lower. All of which is much harder than just coding it right in the first place. IANAP, but I can conceive of a few techniques - ignore the price in the link, and keep it internally to be used for processing the transaction, which will cause problems for split tenders, but that's poorly supported anyways.
Lazy fails.
If so, then their economics are really really irrational, if not totally dysfunctional.
And ensuring, in America, that 22% of children conceived will never, ever get cancer. Or anything else.
"Europe is far more racist than the United States, and that's despite strong prohibitions against hate speech."
And so we confront the problem - hate-thought. Good luck making that illegal.
All politics is someone's morality.
Since you're too arrogant or lazy to browse Wikipedia, I'll post when I have a better keyboard
I'm not sure how you could be more wrong. Please, read up on the law and correct yourself. Have some dignity.
Rent control doesn't work.
At least for tenants.
I'm not sure I agree. If a private party DDOS'd your blog site, are they infringing on your free speech? If they aren't your service provider, software vendor, etc, they seem to have intent to do so, and I'm surprised you think it matters WHO is infringing.
And limiting this to government allows for much mischief.
And you denigrate LaTex by omission. Scum. No doubt you use Joe.
Marketing can never see a message delivered, be it a pop-up, pop-under, tray message, anything, as a failure.
Every impression is a success.
But the rest of the product team should be more circumspect, and recognize this for what it is - abuse.
QA is dead to me, Agile notwithstanding.
All deserve freedom. Some will let it be taken from them. Others will not.
It's about 60%.
You think warrants are always issued for mail intercepts, pen registers, and such?
My current phone is an HTC ONE M8. The nonremovable battery is past its prime, so I'm not very worried abuot getting Android N.
Lesson Zero - removable battery. Must have.
Lesson One - Style is not more important than substance.
Lesson Two - RAM is king. More is better. More RAM is the enabler of future upgrades.
So my next phone will have more RAM, removable battery, and not be too ugly. And would I pay for the extra update to a then - current Android? Yes, if it included patches, and not too expensive. Subscription? Let me tell you a story.
Amazon would sell me a variety of items cheaper if I agreed to a subscription to buy more of a consumable item. The most recent example is a replacement cartridge for my Brain Series 7 shaver. Recommended interval is 18 months. They would give me a price break on this? Like in 3 years I would agree to buy 2 more? Really? I see the cleaning cartridges as an opportunity, but actually those last me so long I'm not ready to get on the recommended-interval-treadmill.
Subscription is the future of consumer goods. Lock the consumer in. Sell on *your* schedule. Own the consumer.
But for a phone, it may be inevitable that they will push a subscription to go past the 'regular' upgrade cycle. Whatever that is.
Google, this is how you monetize Android. You're welcome.
Amen.
EFF, EFA, BMLP, RT4CHICAGO, ICANN, there are others. Know, understand, and support them.
"Yes it can. Remember, the 4th amendment is based around your person, affects and residence. Email is typically stored by a third party, thus is not protected by the 4th."
So paper, postal mail, is likewise not protected? Much law is written recognizing and enforcing such a right, and so must be extended to electronic mail.
Does my residence no longer deserve protection when I leave it for work? No. My personal possessions, despite being removed from my presence, are still mine, and a reasonable expectation of privacy, security, is not diminished merely because I choose to use a door lock that the authorities can open surreptitiously, and so it should be with electronic possessions. In fact, despite my leaving my home unlocked, the authorities should know, and should be expected to know, that I did not give them consent to enter and rifle through my possessions merely because I did not secure it. A thief has no excuse, they are tried and found guilty despite my failing to lock the door. The authorities, unless they would use the thief's defense, that they did it because 'they could', have less excuse. They should know better.
And that they grant themselves permission to do what they ought not do proves it.
Vote them all out. All of them. Suffer only those who have not already betrayed you. And that is a short list indeed.