Is the next step going to be to make it illegal for websites about gambling to be viewable in Washington? Could I be in trouble if I were to put up a gambling site that someone in Washington viewed, or wouldthat person be in trouble for looking? Would I be "aiding and abetting" a crime by publishing information about it in my own state of California?
I'm curious as to whether or not this could be pushed into the Freedom of Information Act. It certainly violates the right to freedom of speech, and a Constitutional challenge could probably bring this law to a halt. A certain action may be a crime, but to read about how to carry out that act is considered informational. What is done with that knowledge is the crime. Keeping people in the dark should also be considered a crime.
In a world in which we can legally find out how to make bombs and where to (sometimes) legally obtain the supplies, should the politicians in Washington really be so concerned about people gambling and sharing information, or would a better use of their time be to combat online child porn?
This reminds me of China, and if I have to explain what I mean by that, go run into a doorknob.
This is not new. Legitimate sites are hacked more often than anyone cares to admit, and end up hosting fraudulent pages that indeed link to an outside page, often with the domain in the web bar masked. Everyone should know by now to go directly to a page, and those who chose to ignore this should either be banned from the internet as their falling for these scams encourages crooks, or else they deserve what they get.
Something else not knew is domain masking, which I am sure you all know about.
*sigh* When your ID is stolen, as mine was the "good old-fashioned way" when I was 18 (25 now), it sets you up for years of frustration, thousands you can't recoup, and makes you wonder why the hell people aren't more vigilant about protecting their identity. Once it's lost, you've got no hope, and dozens of police reports are no longer enough to get a new social to get your life back on track. Finding another ding on your report, another credit card in your name, a speeding ticket in a state you've never been to...it all becomes just something you accept, though no less frustrating. And these is no end in sight, not until people wise up and uard themselves to discourage people from even trying. And even that won't be enough.
"...living costs eat up about half the worker's salaries."
Welcome to the Bay Area. Wait - rents easily eat up about 2/3 of the typical household income, or something like that. $14/hr is good for young people (using my roommate), and $1,500 for an apartment is common. Full time with 4.3 weeks per month, at a 30% tax-rate, that salary is down to $1,685.50. $185.50 left over. 88.9% of this post-tax salary to rent, or 62.3% pre-tax. So she has a roommate - me. No wonder roommates are a neccessity to life out here.
And the further reality is that if sweatshops were removed, those workers would have absolutely no income. Long hours and low wages (which describes the typical fast-food employee or Wal-Mart "team member"), or no income. Or prices can be raised, comsumers bitch, don't buy, and the product goes under anyway, taking those jobs away. It's be nice to find a balance, but first company owners need to realize that they aren't at risk of going broke if they "only" have $500mil in quarterly revenue.
Beer is just such a part of college life that no one thinks twice about it. I mean, is it "in" to wear clothing or is it just something that you do? Sure, there are those who consider clothing (and beer) to be optional (like me), so perhaps a better poll would have been which things are considered more a part of life than a trend which may or may not fizzle out. Beer's not in or out. It just...is.
Aside from her losing it not making it stolen, that is.
Here's how it would play out.
She leaves her phone in a cab. Someone uses the phone to sign into AIM and take a couple pictures. Those pictures and that password are stored in the phone or on the SIM card in the phone she lost. Unless given back to her, she wouldn't have the pictures or that info because she doesn't have the phone or SIM card.
This is on par with me losing a digital camera, buying a new one, popping in a new memory card, and having the pictures the "thief" who found my prior camera had taken after I lost it.
The SIM card outside a phone isn't going to be able to send info to a new card, and right now the info on SIM cards made for Sidekicks (through T-Mobile only right now, unless I'm mistaken) can't be transfered from one card to another anyway by any means on the market.
A more believable story would be that she checked to see what calls she was billed for and tried calling whoever the finder called.
Cigarette smoking has been known to be bad for decades.
If you were to actually read my post, you'd realize the point I was making is that the government will legalize something harmful, or keep it legal, if they can benefit. Technically, all forms of income are taxable. So gambling winnings are already taxable. To legalize it wouldn't neccessarily make it any easier to tax. However, they can fine people much easier for gambling and get money that way.
Yes, certain adult acts are still crimes. Sodomy between two adults of opposite genders is being accepted more and more, but gays are still having a hell of a time with it.
This is an example of the law being used to protect otherd from the effects of second-hand smoke. Now, if a ban were in effect that smoking in your own porch or in your own home were illegal, that would be infringing on your personal rights.
A friend of mine had hers in her purse with a bottle of tea. The lid came loose, drenched the iPod. He dad bought her a new one, then opened the old one, which she only received this past Christmas, and closed it again. It worked somehow. It seems that when these things are abused, they work again.
And about Apple's warranty? An ex of mine kind of battered his Shuffle, and the guy at the store had no problem exchanging it out for a new one.
This has got to be my lamest post ever.
When I don't like a politician, I do what I can to oust him. My state managed to successfully recall the govorner a few years ago, and I donated money to the cause and helped gather signatures to bring it to ballot. Unfortunately, the system is getting to be too big. It takes so much to remove one person that, in the time neccessary, several move start to do the same thing.
We aren't a democracy anymore. We are under the rule of a dictator we vote every four years, but whom the US Supreme Court can ultimately decide, whether or not in line with the votes.
I believe that all humans have a few basic rights, such as to food, and that all people need to contribute to this. Libertarianism goes that it should be each person's choice whether or not to help, even in the case of someone so disabled they'd have no chance of survival otherwise. It is this that keeps me from being out-and-out Libertarian.
You can choose to smoke cigarettes around a newborn baby, even blowing smoke in its face, and it's completely legal, but to gamble your own money should be a crime? Because they can tax the cigarettes, but it's difficult to enforce taxes on online winnings. Without that tax money, how are they supposed to vote themselves more payraises? There is no logical reason for this. If you think about it, most laws are in place for no reason other than as reasons to fine us or tax us to death.
The original purpose of laws at all was to impose a minimal number of laws to ensure the safety of lives and property of citizens. How does it ensure the safety of my life or property if I cross a suburban street anywhere other than a street corner if no cars are coming? I learned to look both ways. It's still a crime a cop could fine me for.
What politician does it hurt if two guys want to go consensually behind closed and do whatever the hell they want to do with each other? Who does it hurt if I want to give a guy a blow job, or he wants to go down on me? Hell, we're adults, and yet these are still crimes in some states. Must we get permits?
See why I like a lot (but not all) of the ideas behind anarchy? Get the government the hell out of our lives.
Yes, you, you darned virus. We have had such a love-hate relationship the past two years. You love me, I hate you. Or at least you love me for my phone. Is that all I'm good for? Huh? Is it?! Fine, then I hope you have a craptacular birthday because you make people miserable. Viruses suck! That's it, I'm going to become a wormer.
And yes, that cake is flavored with cyanide.
Jackass.
Having grown up in a family that played and coached tons of sports, I've seen a good deal of Nike shoes wear out very quickly. Reebok and Adidas lasted, Nike is just for the flash and the swoosh. But it seems Apple is going for the recognition of the swoosh more than quality. Sad.
It's a fad that will come and go quickly as the serious runners stay reluctant to switch shoes for the show. You're not going to burn any more calories by having this product unless you're trying to kick yourself for giving in.
Ha! My parents bought a 60" tv for some astronimical amount and it broke exactly four days after the warranty expired.
Companies have had enough experience in just how well to make something to time it breaking, and it's a better risk to have a few go right before and the company have to abide by the warranty to have many, many die right after. But for software, all they have to do is upgrade and make new programs incompatible. Damned companies.
You know if they sold something "future proof" that they'd just find a way around it anyway. It's inevitible.
If you've ever linked to an article, with the article being the most pertinent thing, and had the webpage error out on multiple browsers on multiple computers, you'll understand the usefulness of copying and pasting even an entire article, proper credits given.
This article is currently not coming up for me. Had it been copied here, I could be reading it instead of using it against itself.
If a company can get a patent to buy stuff with one click, making it a violation for other companies to allow people to buy with one click, what next, a patent issued making it illegal to breed? Wait, already happened....
...is that we hear about stuff like this as fact before the rest of the world even hears it as rumor. I believe it's been a while that companies have been using this to keep track of what their employees are doing on work time (where I work, we had to sign a document stating that we knew that any and all communications at work, from VOIP to e-mail to webpages, regardless of encryption, could be recorded with no further notice) and to follow court-ordered tracking. The internet is not a secure place to be by any means, and it's best to proceed as if someone is watching. Because, chances are, someone is.
So for the kid to be filmed 14 hours per day, they'll need to keep the kid in the same room(s) for a year. No going outside and doing other activities where development happens.
Correct you are! Have you ever seen a child so used to all eyes on him/her? My cousin's baby, Eva, screams bloody murder if attention doesn't remain on her, literally. These parents are going to regret doing this.
I've got a moral objection to a child being used for research like this. Aside from growing up fixated on cameras, has anyone given thought to how this child will feel as an adult knowing that mommy and daddy allowed him (her?) to be watched for more than half the hours in a year for research purposes? "Yeah, my parents sold my babyhood for science. I was a labrat!" When a camera is aimed, the behavior of those present tends to change, so this will also affect the interactions between parents and baby.
I can only hope the money made will be put into an interest-bearing fund for the child's future therapy or college education rather than the parents getting the money.
I meant to the website. Rather thank click on something supposedly from Paypal, type in www.paypal.com. I should have written to type in the mainpage URL. Now I feel dumb as I specialize in phishing prevention. Long weekend.
When are people going to wake up and learn to always manually type in a website rather than click links? The idiots who fall for this stuff are owed our gratitude. They're the magnates for these scams.
Of course, it would help tremendously if banks and such stopped pushing third-party sites. https://www.thankyounetwork.com/ is a legit site (just ran it through my company's software), but plently just like this aren't. If people know this one is legit, what is there to make them weary of the fakes?
Since our Constitution has been so twisted already, could this not be seen as a violation of our right to freedom of movement? If we can't move about freely as adults on the internet....
But yeah, give these rules to kids. If you've ever been so unfortuante as to have to go to the library to use the internet, you'd want to scream at every computer being in use by rugrats playing games, quite often not even at their machine, but instead peering over a friend's shoulder.
Scammers and spammers make an incredible amount of money, and a lot use internet users seem to think that a willingness to pay for advertising equals credibility because so few people fall for it! But in actuality, 3-7% of phishes are successful. And the info garnered from spyware is worth a great deal more than the cost of advertsising.
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Is the next step going to be to make it illegal for websites about gambling to be viewable in Washington? Could I be in trouble if I were to put up a gambling site that someone in Washington viewed, or wouldthat person be in trouble for looking? Would I be "aiding and abetting" a crime by publishing information about it in my own state of California?
I'm curious as to whether or not this could be pushed into the Freedom of Information Act. It certainly violates the right to freedom of speech, and a Constitutional challenge could probably bring this law to a halt. A certain action may be a crime, but to read about how to carry out that act is considered informational. What is done with that knowledge is the crime. Keeping people in the dark should also be considered a crime.
In a world in which we can legally find out how to make bombs and where to (sometimes) legally obtain the supplies, should the politicians in Washington really be so concerned about people gambling and sharing information, or would a better use of their time be to combat online child porn?
This reminds me of China, and if I have to explain what I mean by that, go run into a doorknob.
This is not new. Legitimate sites are hacked more often than anyone cares to admit, and end up hosting fraudulent pages that indeed link to an outside page, often with the domain in the web bar masked. Everyone should know by now to go directly to a page, and those who chose to ignore this should either be banned from the internet as their falling for these scams encourages crooks, or else they deserve what they get.
Something else not knew is domain masking, which I am sure you all know about.
*sigh* When your ID is stolen, as mine was the "good old-fashioned way" when I was 18 (25 now), it sets you up for years of frustration, thousands you can't recoup, and makes you wonder why the hell people aren't more vigilant about protecting their identity. Once it's lost, you've got no hope, and dozens of police reports are no longer enough to get a new social to get your life back on track. Finding another ding on your report, another credit card in your name, a speeding ticket in a state you've never been to...it all becomes just something you accept, though no less frustrating. And these is no end in sight, not until people wise up and uard themselves to discourage people from even trying. And even that won't be enough.
"...living costs eat up about half the worker's salaries."
Welcome to the Bay Area. Wait - rents easily eat up about 2/3 of the typical household income, or something like that. $14/hr is good for young people (using my roommate), and $1,500 for an apartment is common. Full time with 4.3 weeks per month, at a 30% tax-rate, that salary is down to $1,685.50. $185.50 left over. 88.9% of this post-tax salary to rent, or 62.3% pre-tax. So she has a roommate - me. No wonder roommates are a neccessity to life out here.
And the further reality is that if sweatshops were removed, those workers would have absolutely no income. Long hours and low wages (which describes the typical fast-food employee or Wal-Mart "team member"), or no income. Or prices can be raised, comsumers bitch, don't buy, and the product goes under anyway, taking those jobs away. It's be nice to find a balance, but first company owners need to realize that they aren't at risk of going broke if they "only" have $500mil in quarterly revenue.
Beer is just such a part of college life that no one thinks twice about it. I mean, is it "in" to wear clothing or is it just something that you do? Sure, there are those who consider clothing (and beer) to be optional (like me), so perhaps a better poll would have been which things are considered more a part of life than a trend which may or may not fizzle out. Beer's not in or out. It just...is.
Now go watch Strong Bad deal with the near-tragedy of Dan, who "almost a one that was not cold."
Aside from her losing it not making it stolen, that is.
Here's how it would play out.
She leaves her phone in a cab. Someone uses the phone to sign into AIM and take a couple pictures. Those pictures and that password are stored in the phone or on the SIM card in the phone she lost. Unless given back to her, she wouldn't have the pictures or that info because she doesn't have the phone or SIM card.
This is on par with me losing a digital camera, buying a new one, popping in a new memory card, and having the pictures the "thief" who found my prior camera had taken after I lost it.
The SIM card outside a phone isn't going to be able to send info to a new card, and right now the info on SIM cards made for Sidekicks (through T-Mobile only right now, unless I'm mistaken) can't be transfered from one card to another anyway by any means on the market.
A more believable story would be that she checked to see what calls she was billed for and tried calling whoever the finder called.
Cigarette smoking has been known to be bad for decades.
If you were to actually read my post, you'd realize the point I was making is that the government will legalize something harmful, or keep it legal, if they can benefit. Technically, all forms of income are taxable. So gambling winnings are already taxable. To legalize it wouldn't neccessarily make it any easier to tax. However, they can fine people much easier for gambling and get money that way.
Yes, certain adult acts are still crimes. Sodomy between two adults of opposite genders is being accepted more and more, but gays are still having a hell of a time with it.
Which is why I look both ways and don't cross if there's an on-coming car. Duh.
Not to mention that drivers are supposed to be on the lookout anyway for objects or people, such as a small child, suddenly running into the road.
This is an example of the law being used to protect otherd from the effects of second-hand smoke. Now, if a ban were in effect that smoking in your own porch or in your own home were illegal, that would be infringing on your personal rights.
A friend of mine had hers in her purse with a bottle of tea. The lid came loose, drenched the iPod. He dad bought her a new one, then opened the old one, which she only received this past Christmas, and closed it again. It worked somehow. It seems that when these things are abused, they work again. And about Apple's warranty? An ex of mine kind of battered his Shuffle, and the guy at the store had no problem exchanging it out for a new one. This has got to be my lamest post ever.
When I don't like a politician, I do what I can to oust him. My state managed to successfully recall the govorner a few years ago, and I donated money to the cause and helped gather signatures to bring it to ballot. Unfortunately, the system is getting to be too big. It takes so much to remove one person that, in the time neccessary, several move start to do the same thing.
We aren't a democracy anymore. We are under the rule of a dictator we vote every four years, but whom the US Supreme Court can ultimately decide, whether or not in line with the votes.
I believe that all humans have a few basic rights, such as to food, and that all people need to contribute to this. Libertarianism goes that it should be each person's choice whether or not to help, even in the case of someone so disabled they'd have no chance of survival otherwise. It is this that keeps me from being out-and-out Libertarian.
You can choose to smoke cigarettes around a newborn baby, even blowing smoke in its face, and it's completely legal, but to gamble your own money should be a crime? Because they can tax the cigarettes, but it's difficult to enforce taxes on online winnings. Without that tax money, how are they supposed to vote themselves more payraises? There is no logical reason for this. If you think about it, most laws are in place for no reason other than as reasons to fine us or tax us to death.
The original purpose of laws at all was to impose a minimal number of laws to ensure the safety of lives and property of citizens. How does it ensure the safety of my life or property if I cross a suburban street anywhere other than a street corner if no cars are coming? I learned to look both ways. It's still a crime a cop could fine me for.
What politician does it hurt if two guys want to go consensually behind closed and do whatever the hell they want to do with each other? Who does it hurt if I want to give a guy a blow job, or he wants to go down on me? Hell, we're adults, and yet these are still crimes in some states. Must we get permits?
See why I like a lot (but not all) of the ideas behind anarchy? Get the government the hell out of our lives.
Yes, you, you darned virus. We have had such a love-hate relationship the past two years. You love me, I hate you. Or at least you love me for my phone. Is that all I'm good for? Huh? Is it?! Fine, then I hope you have a craptacular birthday because you make people miserable. Viruses suck! That's it, I'm going to become a wormer. And yes, that cake is flavored with cyanide. Jackass.
Having grown up in a family that played and coached tons of sports, I've seen a good deal of Nike shoes wear out very quickly. Reebok and Adidas lasted, Nike is just for the flash and the swoosh. But it seems Apple is going for the recognition of the swoosh more than quality. Sad.
It's a fad that will come and go quickly as the serious runners stay reluctant to switch shoes for the show. You're not going to burn any more calories by having this product unless you're trying to kick yourself for giving in.
Ha! My parents bought a 60" tv for some astronimical amount and it broke exactly four days after the warranty expired. Companies have had enough experience in just how well to make something to time it breaking, and it's a better risk to have a few go right before and the company have to abide by the warranty to have many, many die right after. But for software, all they have to do is upgrade and make new programs incompatible. Damned companies. You know if they sold something "future proof" that they'd just find a way around it anyway. It's inevitible.
If you've ever linked to an article, with the article being the most pertinent thing, and had the webpage error out on multiple browsers on multiple computers, you'll understand the usefulness of copying and pasting even an entire article, proper credits given. This article is currently not coming up for me. Had it been copied here, I could be reading it instead of using it against itself.
If a company can get a patent to buy stuff with one click, making it a violation for other companies to allow people to buy with one click, what next, a patent issued making it illegal to breed? Wait, already happened....
...is that we hear about stuff like this as fact before the rest of the world even hears it as rumor. I believe it's been a while that companies have been using this to keep track of what their employees are doing on work time (where I work, we had to sign a document stating that we knew that any and all communications at work, from VOIP to e-mail to webpages, regardless of encryption, could be recorded with no further notice) and to follow court-ordered tracking. The internet is not a secure place to be by any means, and it's best to proceed as if someone is watching. Because, chances are, someone is.
So for the kid to be filmed 14 hours per day, they'll need to keep the kid in the same room(s) for a year. No going outside and doing other activities where development happens.
Correct you are! Have you ever seen a child so used to all eyes on him/her? My cousin's baby, Eva, screams bloody murder if attention doesn't remain on her, literally. These parents are going to regret doing this.
I've got a moral objection to a child being used for research like this. Aside from growing up fixated on cameras, has anyone given thought to how this child will feel as an adult knowing that mommy and daddy allowed him (her?) to be watched for more than half the hours in a year for research purposes? "Yeah, my parents sold my babyhood for science. I was a labrat!" When a camera is aimed, the behavior of those present tends to change, so this will also affect the interactions between parents and baby. I can only hope the money made will be put into an interest-bearing fund for the child's future therapy or college education rather than the parents getting the money.
I meant to the website. Rather thank click on something supposedly from Paypal, type in www.paypal.com. I should have written to type in the mainpage URL. Now I feel dumb as I specialize in phishing prevention. Long weekend.
When are people going to wake up and learn to always manually type in a website rather than click links? The idiots who fall for this stuff are owed our gratitude. They're the magnates for these scams. Of course, it would help tremendously if banks and such stopped pushing third-party sites. https://www.thankyounetwork.com/ is a legit site (just ran it through my company's software), but plently just like this aren't. If people know this one is legit, what is there to make them weary of the fakes?
Since our Constitution has been so twisted already, could this not be seen as a violation of our right to freedom of movement? If we can't move about freely as adults on the internet.... But yeah, give these rules to kids. If you've ever been so unfortuante as to have to go to the library to use the internet, you'd want to scream at every computer being in use by rugrats playing games, quite often not even at their machine, but instead peering over a friend's shoulder.
Scammers and spammers make an incredible amount of money, and a lot use internet users seem to think that a willingness to pay for advertising equals credibility because so few people fall for it! But in actuality, 3-7% of phishes are successful. And the info garnered from spyware is worth a great deal more than the cost of advertsising.