Open the code used to calculate the temperatures to the public and open the data. The US citizens paid for this information, let them have it. If this information was open for review then this wouldn't be the story it is.
I'll worry when a sock puppet hawks pet food on a superbowl commercial or when some company tries to create a business model around delivering groceries to consumers from a van.
Being in control of what you reveal? Stripping away your choice?
Kenneth Lay would love to be able to control what he revealed. So would Scooter Libby, et al. It's a great idea and it's a damn shame we had issues like Enron, etc. I know "privacy" is the dream everyone's passing 'round these days like a joint at a 70's rock concert, but that was then and this is now.
If it all came down to choice, then of course everyone that has something going on they don't want to be made public would choose privacy. That leads directly to the argument at hand - "if you've got nothing to hide..."
It doesn't come down to choice though, not even a little bit. It comes down to a balance between what I want and what everyone else wants. At this point I can hear the clicks of the libertarians cutting and pasting the 4th amendment, and they honestly have a point. However, they wish to extend that so they can be in public and still be in private (however that words).
Balance is where it's at. Push on one side of the scale and watch the other side move. The "I've got nothing to hide..." folks are just reacting to an issue that they realize they have no control over by doing what they need to for their sanity's sake.
"Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference".
Divide it horizontally into 3 panels, separated by a black line.
In the first, leave the section white, in the second, intersperse 1/300" red toner dots every square inch in a 50% distribution pattern. In the last, coat the panel 100% with red toner.
Give this paper to a lawyer and ask him or her to show it to the jury and ask "How many colors are on this paper?"
When the jury says "3", have the lawyer thank them and announce that he rests his case.
Theories and facts are two different things. 'Till the jury decides, I'll call foul to any claiming victory.
Strong evidence collected over the past decade supports the prion theory, but the ability of the BSE agent to form multiple strains is more easily explained by a virus-like agent.
It can't be much clearer. You have the right to hide and other people have the right to try to find you. Think about the kid game of "hide and seek". If you don't want them looking for you, fly under their radar.
It's similar to buying a Dell computer and the harddrive breaks. You don't call Maxtor or WD or whoever made it, you call Dell. They are supporting the whole package.
Is it similar to buying a laptop and the battery catches on fire? How is that NOT Sony's fault?
It reads like "Hey! I'm so uber cool and I know a trick and you can be cool too if you act like me!"
which is utter crap.
The biggest thing to do to adopt "good" habits is to use syntax that'll work on every version of every flavor of UNIX. As the author of the article doesn't stress that, he's not a good person to use as an example.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has predicted an average global rise in temperature of 1.4C (2.5F) to 5.8 C (10.4F) between 1990 and 2100).[2] Current estimates indicate that even if successfully and completely implemented, the Kyoto Protocol will reduce that increase by somewhere between 0.02 C and 0.28 C by the year 2050 (source: Nature, October 2003).
The Sun is typically very active when sunspot counts are high. Sunspots are indicators of disturbances in the Sun's magnetic field, which can generate energetic solar events like solar flares and coronal mass ejections. Since reasonably reliable records of sunspot counts extend back to the early 1700s, long before other measures of solar activity could be observed, sunspot counts serve as a valuable, relatively long-term indicator of solar activity. The Sun emits significantly more radiation than usual in the X-ray and ultraviolet portions of the electromagnetic spectrum during solar max, and this extra energy significantly alters the uppermost layers of Earth's atmosphere.
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I don't have a horse in this race. I just want the reader/writer to come down in price already!
I smell someone making an argument to get a better deal.
Open the code used to calculate the temperatures to the public and open the data. The US citizens paid for this information, let them have it. If this information was open for review then this wouldn't be the story it is.
You gotta admit, this'll be a memory she'll never forget.
I wonder what she'll do for her 21st? Go big and rob a bank or learn her lesson and stop breaking laws?
"...more than meets the eye" indeed!
Yeah, they get the patch or app using their elite interweb tube searching skills.
You haven't spent much time with an average Joe, have you.
I'll worry when a sock puppet hawks pet food on a superbowl commercial or when some company tries to create a business model around delivering groceries to consumers from a van.
... worms that have to ask permission to do their thing.
"Are you sure you want to install this virus"?
There are only 1/10th the number of people in Canada.
That means that there can only be 1/10th the amount of piracy if there is a similar percentage of the population pirating music, movies, etc.
The government is trying to find criminals!
Being in control of what you reveal? Stripping away your choice?
Kenneth Lay would love to be able to control what he revealed. So would Scooter Libby, et al. It's a great idea and it's a damn shame we had issues like Enron, etc. I know "privacy" is the dream everyone's passing 'round these days like a joint at a 70's rock concert, but that was then and this is now.
If it all came down to choice, then of course everyone that has something going on they don't want to be made public would choose privacy. That leads directly to the argument at hand - "if you've got nothing to hide..."
It doesn't come down to choice though, not even a little bit. It comes down to a balance between what I want and what everyone else wants. At this point I can hear the clicks of the libertarians cutting and pasting the 4th amendment, and they honestly have a point. However, they wish to extend that so they can be in public and still be in private (however that words).
Balance is where it's at. Push on one side of the scale and watch the other side move. The "I've got nothing to hide..." folks are just reacting to an issue that they realize they have no control over by doing what they need to for their sanity's sake.
"Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference".
Why are there HUGE numbers of people posting their lives on-line, photos on facebook, opinions on slashdot, etc, etc, etc.
You're giving it away by the barrel full and whine about a thimbleful?
Take a 8.5 X 11 inch white sheet of paper.
Divide it horizontally into 3 panels, separated by a black line.
In the first, leave the section white, in the second, intersperse 1/300" red toner dots every square inch in a 50% distribution pattern. In the last, coat the panel 100% with red toner.
Give this paper to a lawyer and ask him or her to show it to the jury and ask "How many colors are on this paper?"
When the jury says "3", have the lawyer thank them and announce that he rests his case.
Where's the sign on bonus like in the late 90's? Where's the hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars for referrals?
Like you didn't know this would start a geek war.
There should be a special place for trolls, preferably without computer access.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs113/en /
Theories and facts are two different things. 'Till the jury decides, I'll call foul to any claiming victory.
Strong evidence collected over the past decade supports the prion theory, but the ability of the BSE agent to form multiple strains is more easily explained by a virus-like agent.
mad cow isn't based on a rogue protein. it's a disease that's spread by ingesting infected protein.
you don't know what you're talking about.
It can't be much clearer. You have the right to hide and other people have the right to try to find you. Think about the kid game of "hide and seek". If you don't want them looking for you, fly under their radar.
the #1 greenhouse gas is water vapor
A library is not an appropriate example, but I'd bet that radio and tv are.
While they are licensed to air their material, they also make it available for people to copy.
Perhaps "passwd" didn't work, and so they edited /etc/passwd instead. But why the hell would they edit it?
because they cut their teeth using "vipw"?
It's similar to buying a Dell computer and the harddrive breaks. You don't call Maxtor or WD or whoever made it, you call Dell. They are supporting the whole package.
Is it similar to buying a laptop and the battery catches on fire? How is that NOT Sony's fault?
You DO know that Franklin sat out the revolution in France, don't you?
It reads like "Hey! I'm so uber cool and I know a trick and you can be cool too if you act like me!"
which is utter crap.
The biggest thing to do to adopt "good" habits is to use syntax that'll work on every version of every flavor of UNIX. As the author of the article doesn't stress that, he's not a good person to use as an example.
From wiki -
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has predicted an average global rise in temperature of 1.4C (2.5F) to 5.8 C (10.4F) between 1990 and 2100).[2] Current estimates indicate that even if successfully and completely implemented, the Kyoto Protocol will reduce that increase by somewhere between 0.02 C and 0.28 C by the year 2050 (source: Nature, October 2003).
you don't know what you think you know...
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The Sun is typically very active when sunspot counts are high. Sunspots are indicators of disturbances in the Sun's magnetic field, which can generate energetic solar events like solar flares and coronal mass ejections. Since reasonably reliable records of sunspot counts extend back to the early 1700s, long before other measures of solar activity could be observed, sunspot counts serve as a valuable, relatively long-term indicator of solar activity. The Sun emits significantly more radiation than usual in the X-ray and ultraviolet portions of the electromagnetic spectrum during solar max, and this extra energy significantly alters the uppermost layers of Earth's atmosphere.
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/sun/activity/sunspot_