Nowhere in the Constitution is the word "privacy" mentioned. Your "right to privacy" is a fiction; a right inferred by the courts from the other rights enumerated in the Constitution, but which could very easily get wiped away with a new ruling. If you beleive everybody _should_ have a right to privacy, I suggest you get started with the ammendment process now...
(Personally, I beleive that once you've spent millions of dollars on publicity agents to try to thrust yourself into the publics' view, you've pretty much waived any right to privacy. But that's just my opinion.)
He didn't mention her name; the website is set up so that anybody can caption a picture (I thought the captions were reviewed first, but apparently they must take effect immediately.) If Barbara crybaby doesn't like the caption, well then she can go to the web site and change it herself! Of course, now that she's made a public issue about it, she'll now have to compete with 10,000 trolls that will keep changing it back. One thing the internet has taught me: there are never any winners in a pissing contest!
The only thing I can think of that a tablet PC is good for is browsing the web while in the bathroom -- but that in and of itself should make it popular with the/. crowd! However, at $2000 it seems these things are priced much higher than their functionality would justify. Bring the price down to $500 and you might actually sell some of them!
Yes, but here in Oregon, they've decided to screw NPR/OPB by not giving them ANY of the state funding they had already budgeted... now would probably be a good time to actually donate to NPR if you like it so much...
Well, no, most experienced car strippers could probably steal your car, park it right in front of a camera, and be gone with most of the expensive parts before anybody shows up to investigate...
Really? I doubt if a cop is going to enlist the help of several 100 other cops to help him stalk his ex-wife, but he might be tempted to type a few keystrokes on a computer when noone is watching... the risk here is not that good cops will use this to perform their assigned jobs to the benefit of the public, but that bad cops will use this to assist in stalking, kidnapping, extortion, blackmail, etc. Any increased police power is subject to abuse, and requires a checks and balances system to prevent those abuses.
Here in the states, we just had a Chief of Police murder his wife! Fact is, law enforcement officials stalk there ex's all the time (I guess the controlling personalities that are prone to choose law enforcement are also prone to stalking behaviour). This means if you are a cop's ex-girlfriend in the UK, he now knows where you are at every minute of the day. Be afraid; be very afraid.
True, but they were going to be bankrupt anyway, probably even sooner. And you forgot to add "At the end of the day... SCO will be bankrupt, all the SCO corporate officers will have cushy jobs at M$, and their lawyer will own a couple new houses, boats and cars."
They don't have to reveal their code. If they say "these 10 lines are identical to these other 10 lines in the Linux source" then everybody already has a copy of those 10 lines, don't they?
As of market close today, SCOX is down another 9.08% to close at $6.00. That would be down 31% from it's close of 8.71 just two days ago. Apparently nobody's buying their bullshit, or the stock price would be going up, no?
Because we are dealing with confidential source code that we have never released without confidentiality agreements, we will have to put in place nondisclosures [SIC] simply to protect the source.
But, uh, anybody in the world can view the Linux source code that they claim is identical without signing an NDA, so how exactly is this protecting them?
Speaking of which, anybody else see any parallels between Ender's Game and the U.S. Strategy in the Gulf War? Sort of makes you wonder if Rumsfeld is an Orson Scott Card fan, doesn't it?
All 6 books: Sundiver, Startide Rising, The Uplift War, Brightness Reef, Infinity's Shore, and Heaven's reach. David Brin's best work; entertaining and thought provoking at the same time.
Yes and no. If Frank Herbert had stopped at two books, I would have said it was a great story. Unfortunately, after the second book they get more and more incoherent and harder to follow. The theory is he was able to afford too many drugs after selling the first two...
Yes, NAT sucks for servers, but in most environments, less than 5% of the nodes are servers... although I guess NAT would wreak havoc with peer-to-peer filesharing. Even though in theory the problem can be solved by mapping specific ports to different internal IP address, in practice this make setting up your router/firewall a real pain.
Yes, and you can blame SCO for a lot of really bad and slimy things, but you can't really blame SCO for the fact that Pizza Hut's pizza sucks... or can you?
Good point... how many patents does SCO have? None. How many patents does IBM own? Tens of thousands. What are the chances that something that SCO sells could be interpreted as infringing on one of IBM's patents? Certainly large enough to tie up every penny of SCO's revenue for the next hundred years or so in litigation. "Ok, you proved you didn't infringe on that patent... now there's only 9,999 more patents to go!"
What's SCO stand for? "Spurious Claims of Ownership"!
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I don't understand why the state would want to use a $500 device to collect another $50 in taxes...
(Personally, I beleive that once you've spent millions of dollars on publicity agents to try to thrust yourself into the publics' view, you've pretty much waived any right to privacy. But that's just my opinion.)
He didn't mention her name; the website is set up so that anybody can caption a picture (I thought the captions were reviewed first, but apparently they must take effect immediately.) If Barbara crybaby doesn't like the caption, well then she can go to the web site and change it herself! Of course, now that she's made a public issue about it, she'll now have to compete with 10,000 trolls that will keep changing it back. One thing the internet has taught me: there are never any winners in a pissing contest!
Wouldn't you rather have something you could play Quake III on too?
I tried that, but I couldn't figure out what to put the dishwasher in afterwards to clean it. Does anybody make a dishwasher-washer?
The only thing I can think of that a tablet PC is good for is browsing the web while in the bathroom -- but that in and of itself should make it popular with the /. crowd! However, at $2000 it seems these things are priced much higher than their functionality would justify. Bring the price down to $500 and you might actually sell some of them!
Yes, but here in Oregon, they've decided to screw NPR/OPB by not giving them ANY of the state funding they had already budgeted... now would probably be a good time to actually donate to NPR if you like it so much...
Well, no, most experienced car strippers could probably steal your car, park it right in front of a camera, and be gone with most of the expensive parts before anybody shows up to investigate...
Driving on private property is a right; driving on state-owned property is a privilege granted by the state.
Really? I doubt if a cop is going to enlist the help of several 100 other cops to help him stalk his ex-wife, but he might be tempted to type a few keystrokes on a computer when noone is watching... the risk here is not that good cops will use this to perform their assigned jobs to the benefit of the public, but that bad cops will use this to assist in stalking, kidnapping, extortion, blackmail, etc. Any increased police power is subject to abuse, and requires a checks and balances system to prevent those abuses.
Why use spray paint, when you can just throw mud on the license; it takes only a second and looks much less suspicious?
Here in the states, we just had a Chief of Police murder his wife! Fact is, law enforcement officials stalk there ex's all the time (I guess the controlling personalities that are prone to choose law enforcement are also prone to stalking behaviour). This means if you are a cop's ex-girlfriend in the UK, he now knows where you are at every minute of the day. Be afraid; be very afraid.
True, but they were going to be bankrupt anyway, probably even sooner. And you forgot to add "At the end of the day... SCO will be bankrupt, all the SCO corporate officers will have cushy jobs at M$, and their lawyer will own a couple new houses, boats and cars."
They don't have to reveal their code. If they say "these 10 lines are identical to these other 10 lines in the Linux source" then everybody already has a copy of those 10 lines, don't they?
As of market close today, SCOX is down another 9.08% to close at $6.00. That would be down 31% from it's close of 8.71 just two days ago. Apparently nobody's buying their bullshit, or the stock price would be going up, no?
But, uh, anybody in the world can view the Linux source code that they claim is identical without signing an NDA, so how exactly is this protecting them?
Speaking of which, anybody else see any parallels between Ender's Game and the U.S. Strategy in the Gulf War? Sort of makes you wonder if Rumsfeld is an Orson Scott Card fan, doesn't it?
All 6 books: Sundiver, Startide Rising, The Uplift War, Brightness Reef, Infinity's Shore, and Heaven's reach. David Brin's best work; entertaining and thought provoking at the same time.
Yes and no. If Frank Herbert had stopped at two books, I would have said it was a great story. Unfortunately, after the second book they get more and more incoherent and harder to follow. The theory is he was able to afford too many drugs after selling the first two...
(3.85 * 1.3 = 5), approximately.
Yes, NAT sucks for servers, but in most environments, less than 5% of the nodes are servers... although I guess NAT would wreak havoc with peer-to-peer filesharing. Even though in theory the problem can be solved by mapping specific ports to different internal IP address, in practice this make setting up your router/firewall a real pain.
Yes, and you can blame SCO for a lot of really bad and slimy things, but you can't really blame SCO for the fact that Pizza Hut's pizza sucks... or can you?
Your dictionary word for today is:
schadenfreude \SHAHD-n-froy-duh\, noun:
A malicious satisfaction in the misfortunes of others.
Or perhaps NAT or IPMasq will solve the problem, as it has everywhere else...
What's SCO stand for? "Spurious Claims of Ownership"!