I was just about to give such a reply, but you beat me to it, and yours is even better than mine would have been.
My mom doesn't have to know how to root her phone and load CyanogenMod. But it does create a market for a business which can do these things for people who lack the necessary expertise.
Yes. Instead of making it mandatory, trash services should just charge extra if you can't be bothered to compost. This creates the incentive to compost on your own, while still letting the grouchy types shout "get off my lawn", and it accounts for all the costs.
At least according to US laws, the content of your communications are still considered private. It's just the destination and time of communication (bookkeeping data) that has no expectation of privacy.
The fact that SMS keystrokes can be recorded is clearly a violation of privacy.
I'm also quite worried about the fact that I have to put the password for my work account into my phone in order to receive my work emails. I expect those to be private as well, especially since the password field is masked with *'s (which definitely implies that the password is private). The fact that some previously unknown company may know my work password is frightening to me.
I do agree that the burden of proof should be on those to prove it's not going to fuck things up. However, if you lived in Africa and you had to sleep underneath a mosquito net (if you are lucky enough to have one), you might disagree on whether we have approached "can't make it any worse". Malaria claims in excess of one million lives annually. If it claimed one of your immediate family members you would likely sing a different tune.
From what I have read, this is going after specific species and not the genus as a whole. So that should mitigate some problems that people have.
By the way, some other species will replace mosquitoes. That's what life does, it fills niches. The question is really whether the replacement will be better or worse than mosquitoes. And with all the other hell that we have unleashed upon nature - by some accounts, we are currently witnessing another Great Dying - I don't think killing the disease-carrying mosquito species is really that bad.
This reminds me of the "piracy = lost sale" false equivalence. It stipulates that every pirate copy is a lost sale, and that piracy is therefore costing companies a lot of money. It totally forgets that may have been spent on goods does not "vanish" but instead may be spent elsewhere.
Likewise, do we really know that some other part of the ecosystem will not flourish in the absence of mosquitoes, replacing their link in the food chain with another source of food?
I'm having a hard time deciding what's worse; constantly checking for updates without user consent (what I initially thought), or the ability for a random print job to scribble all over the printer's memory (what I know now).
I think I'm going to have to go with "scribbling all over the printer's memory". That is freaking scary. And it completely bypasses the digital signature check.
If this vector has been known for so long, why is it still wide open? Why does the HP printer check for firmware updates at the outset of every print job? Why were their printers not verifying digital signatures until just two years ago?
The fact that modern printers are susceptible to this attack is still a cause for alarm.
My argument still holds water if you want *everyone* held accountable, including Manning and the individual(s) who improperly classified the documents. It seems that most people only want to hold the former accountable, but not the latter. Do we have the Rule of Law or the Rule of Men?
For instance, what Manning allegedly leaked was just plain old "Secret". However, some members of Obama's administration have leaked "Top Secret" documents. Are those leakers going to be held accountable like Manning? Arguably the Top Secret leaks are worse than the regular Secret leaks. Yet once again, only one Manning will be held accountable for what he did.
Ultimately, I believe everyone should be held accountable for their actions. Do you?
One of the first tricks they teach you in "how to lie with numbers" is to use percentages to inflate otherwise small numbers.
If they want to pimp a percentage, I would love to ask them...what percentage of the Android market share is infected? Somehow I think they wouldn't want to share that number, because all the 0's to the right of the decimal point may call into question exactly how much that very same company's products and services are needed.
Thank you for pointing out what should be fucking obvious. Everyone just looks the other way while stuff is being improperly classified, as if that doesn't matter at all. Perhaps if they had not wrongly classified that intel, Manning wouldn't have had the urge to allegedly leak it.
So you want Manning punished for publishing classified info.
Do you want those who improperly classified info to be punished, as well? For had such info not been classified in the first place, Manning might not have been motivated to release everything.
You're the only person so far who mentioned Collateral Murder. Someone else mentioned the summary execution of Iraqi women and children by US troops who then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence. Another pointed out that we were pimping young boys to Afghani police recruits (it's called "bacha bazi", literally "boy play")
Any person subject to this chapter charged with an offense under this chapter shall be ordered into arrest or confinement, as circumstances may require; but when charged only with an offense normally tried by a summary court-martial, he shall not ordinarily be placed in confinement. When any person subject to this chapter is placed in arrest or confinement prior to trial, immediate steps shall be taken to inform him of the specific wrong of which he is accused and to try him or to dismiss the charges and release him.
I've seen you claim this POW thing elsewhere in comments. Got any evidence to support this?
Because the UCMJ Article 10 also promises a speedy trial. In fact, the courts have found that Article 10's Speedy Trial is more exacting than the Sixth Amendment.
United States v. Thompson, 68 M.J. 308 (when a servicemember is placed in pretrial confinement, Article 10, UCMJ, provides that immediate steps shall be taken to inform the accused of the charges and to either bring the accused to trial or dismiss the charges; Article 10 creates a more exacting speedy trial demand than does the Sixth Amendment).
I just don't agree they should be able to take over a public park and deny the rights of the other citizens access to it.
Do you happen to have a citation that shows where OWS kept other people out of the park? Because AFAIK, they don't "deny" anyone access to the park. Anyone is more than welcome to come in, even the homeless and drunks.
Looks pretty pedestrian to me (although a BGA breakout on so few layers is worth a tip-of-the-hat). I think I only see three signal layers; blue, yellow, and reddish-brown. So they probably have a proper ground plane that's being excluded from the pic. The big swaths of yellow might be a power bus.
Now with only one solid plane, one of the other three layers will not have a solid reference plane. Did the designer take time to make sure no high-speed signals run on that layer? If not, then I expect a noise and EMI nightmare from this board.
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I was just about to give such a reply, but you beat me to it, and yours is even better than mine would have been.
My mom doesn't have to know how to root her phone and load CyanogenMod. But it does create a market for a business which can do these things for people who lack the necessary expertise.
Yes. Instead of making it mandatory, trash services should just charge extra if you can't be bothered to compost. This creates the incentive to compost on your own, while still letting the grouchy types shout "get off my lawn", and it accounts for all the costs.
At least according to US laws, the content of your communications are still considered private. It's just the destination and time of communication (bookkeeping data) that has no expectation of privacy.
The fact that SMS keystrokes can be recorded is clearly a violation of privacy.
I'm also quite worried about the fact that I have to put the password for my work account into my phone in order to receive my work emails. I expect those to be private as well, especially since the password field is masked with *'s (which definitely implies that the password is private). The fact that some previously unknown company may know my work password is frightening to me.
I can put CyanogenMod on my Android handset. I can load ROMs based on carrier firmware that has CIQ removed.
Thanks to Open Source Software, I have this choice.
I do agree that the burden of proof should be on those to prove it's not going to fuck things up. However, if you lived in Africa and you had to sleep underneath a mosquito net (if you are lucky enough to have one), you might disagree on whether we have approached "can't make it any worse". Malaria claims in excess of one million lives annually. If it claimed one of your immediate family members you would likely sing a different tune.
From what I have read, this is going after specific species and not the genus as a whole. So that should mitigate some problems that people have.
By the way, some other species will replace mosquitoes. That's what life does, it fills niches. The question is really whether the replacement will be better or worse than mosquitoes. And with all the other hell that we have unleashed upon nature - by some accounts, we are currently witnessing another Great Dying - I don't think killing the disease-carrying mosquito species is really that bad.
This reminds me of the "piracy = lost sale" false equivalence. It stipulates that every pirate copy is a lost sale, and that piracy is therefore costing companies a lot of money. It totally forgets that may have been spent on goods does not "vanish" but instead may be spent elsewhere.
Likewise, do we really know that some other part of the ecosystem will not flourish in the absence of mosquitoes, replacing their link in the food chain with another source of food?
Ah, thanks for the info.
I'm having a hard time deciding what's worse; constantly checking for updates without user consent (what I initially thought), or the ability for a random print job to scribble all over the printer's memory (what I know now).
I think I'm going to have to go with "scribbling all over the printer's memory". That is freaking scary. And it completely bypasses the digital signature check.
If this vector has been known for so long, why is it still wide open? Why does the HP printer check for firmware updates at the outset of every print job? Why were their printers not verifying digital signatures until just two years ago?
The fact that modern printers are susceptible to this attack is still a cause for alarm.
My argument still holds water if you want *everyone* held accountable, including Manning and the individual(s) who improperly classified the documents. It seems that most people only want to hold the former accountable, but not the latter. Do we have the Rule of Law or the Rule of Men?
For instance, what Manning allegedly leaked was just plain old "Secret". However, some members of Obama's administration have leaked "Top Secret" documents. Are those leakers going to be held accountable like Manning? Arguably the Top Secret leaks are worse than the regular Secret leaks. Yet once again, only one Manning will be held accountable for what he did.
Ultimately, I believe everyone should be held accountable for their actions. Do you?
500% this, 37% that...
One of the first tricks they teach you in "how to lie with numbers" is to use percentages to inflate otherwise small numbers.
If they want to pimp a percentage, I would love to ask them...what percentage of the Android market share is infected? Somehow I think they wouldn't want to share that number, because all the 0's to the right of the decimal point may call into question exactly how much that very same company's products and services are needed.
People in Obama's administration have leaked classified info (bin Laden raid, anyone?)
That info was actually TOP SECRET, and not just SECRET. So someone in Obama's administration is leaking more serious info than Manning did.
Don't hold your breath waiting for that investigation, though.
What happens to the people who improperly classify documents?
Nothing?
Thank you for pointing out what should be fucking obvious. Everyone just looks the other way while stuff is being improperly classified, as if that doesn't matter at all. Perhaps if they had not wrongly classified that intel, Manning wouldn't have had the urge to allegedly leak it.
Would you people please READ instead of using talking points?
US troops committed summary execution of Iraqi women and children, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence.
DynCorp pimped young boys to Afghani police recruits ("bacha bazi").
If that's a "big bowl of nothing", then I'd like a helping of "bullshit" to go with it.
So you want Manning punished for publishing classified info.
Do you want those who improperly classified info to be punished, as well? For had such info not been classified in the first place, Manning might not have been motivated to release everything.
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You're the only person so far who mentioned Collateral Murder. Someone else mentioned the summary execution of Iraqi women and children by US troops who then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence. Another pointed out that we were pimping young boys to Afghani police recruits (it's called "bacha bazi", literally "boy play")
http://usmilitary.about.com/library/milinfo/ucmj/blart-10.htm
Any person subject to this chapter charged with an offense under this chapter shall be ordered into arrest or confinement, as circumstances may require; but when charged only with an offense normally tried by a summary court-martial, he shall not ordinarily be placed in confinement. When any person subject to this chapter is placed in arrest or confinement prior to trial, immediate steps shall be taken to inform him of the specific wrong of which he is accused and to try him or to dismiss the charges and release him.
I mentioned this elsewhere.
Article 10 of the UCMJ creates a more exacting speedy trial demand than the Sixth Amendment (United States v Thompson)
I've seen you claim this POW thing elsewhere in comments. Got any evidence to support this?
Because the UCMJ Article 10 also promises a speedy trial. In fact, the courts have found that Article 10's Speedy Trial is more exacting than the Sixth Amendment.
What crimes exactly? Look a few posts below for one example.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2537478&cid=38128690
In a nutshell, US troops executed at least 10 civilians and then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence.
GPS receives transmissions from a distributed network of satellites. Does that count as an "other network"?
I just don't agree they should be able to take over a public park and deny the rights of the other citizens access to it.
Do you happen to have a citation that shows where OWS kept other people out of the park? Because AFAIK, they don't "deny" anyone access to the park. Anyone is more than welcome to come in, even the homeless and drunks.
Wow, that's embarrassing that I didn't notice the backwards designators written in blue.
Looks pretty pedestrian to me (although a BGA breakout on so few layers is worth a tip-of-the-hat). I think I only see three signal layers; blue, yellow, and reddish-brown. So they probably have a proper ground plane that's being excluded from the pic. The big swaths of yellow might be a power bus.
Now with only one solid plane, one of the other three layers will not have a solid reference plane. Did the designer take time to make sure no high-speed signals run on that layer? If not, then I expect a noise and EMI nightmare from this board.
Yeah, this is a good idea. I thought of "deferred bonus" but "bonus in escrow" is a better way to put it.
I suggested two years, though. Five years is a bit long.
And if someone got a bonus that later turned out to be based on fraudulent activity, the bonus in escrow can easily be taken back.