The realistic threat of facebook vis a vis privacy is that of your youthful indiscretions being on wide display for coworkers and bosses to see.
See also: Craigslist Killer. They keep making more and more information public. Profile pics earlier, and now likes of local restaurants/bars/clubs. Mix with the forced usage of real names, and you've got a perfect $&@^-storm.
Why be on Facebook at all? They don't run it for warm fuzzy feelings. The bulk of the $$$$ is contained in its user data so they'll tap that well more and more as time goes on, not less.
I'm not necessarily worried about privacy from Facebook or their corporate partners; I'm much more worried about what stalker girls would learn about me in the newly public information (and what's made public next, contact info, address, messages, chat logs?). Girls who stalk geeks are *crazy*
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After reading all the above comments, Im kind of surprised that I am in the minority in that I do admin work, and dont hate computers really in any way.
In my work life, its heavily sysadmin type of stuff. I dont hate any of our servers, or the software that runs on them. This is what happens when you make good choices.
I usually reserve my hate for the people who make bad choices for me (the sysadmin) against my protests. Of course, this gets expressed as hatred of specific POS machines they mandated because hatred of the people is less socially acceptable. For the most part, I love computers, and my work and free time revolve around them. My work often feels like free time, especially when I'm surfing/.
I'd love to meet a cop who refused to speed when not necessary for the job because of the principal of upholding the law, but I suspect such individuals make up less than 1% of cops, rather than 99%.
I've seen a lot of cops follow the speed limit where I live, but It's not so much out of principle as it is waiting for some schlup who didn't see the cop car to turn in front of the giant wall of cars, and go the traditional 5-over. Then it's lights on, and the traffic can start to flow in a safe manner with actual passing and lane changing.
Tribalism. Us vs. them. If you bring down a dirty cop, you'll be viewed like the member of the family that killed their abusive father in self defense; most will think better of it, but some - even a subset of the prior group - will be wary of you and might not trust you completely any more. In tribal warfare, trust is life and death.
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Apple will probably have to pay large sums to end the licensing contracts, but that may be worth it to harm competitors. Even if they can't do that, they would be able to not-license any newly developed processors.
But all the marketing will be undone if they wait until 10.05. The marketing department has already fostered a desire in the populace for 10.04 LTS. Make it so.
Will you come to my workplace and enforce these rules (and the rules that others are responding with)? I see several desktops on my network downloading infected pdfs or trojans according to my SEP console. Thankfully these users aren't administrators, but the exploits are just a privilege escalation away from ownage.
I seem to remember that they were close to backing off of Scientologists, mainly because of Isaac Hayes (voice of Chef) is one. But then they went ahead and did it anyway, so he quit
What are you talking about? South Park caved and did a whole episode about What Scientologists Actually Believe.
"Each party shall provide that its judicial authorities shall have the authority at the request of the applicant, to issue an interlocutory injunction intended to prevent any imminent infringement of an intellectual property right [copyright or related rights or trademark]. An interlocutory injunction may also be issued, under the same conditions, against an [infringing] intermediary whose services are being used by a third party to infringe an intellectual property right. Each party shall also provide that provisional measures may be issued, even before the commencement of proceedings on the merits, to preserve relevant evidence in respect of the alleged infringement. Such measures may include inter alia the detailed description, the taking of samples or the physical seizure of documents or of the infringing goods." Um...What?
Any countries signing the treaty agree to make laws so their police forces must seize any goods that *AA thinks might possibly be imminently infringing. ? I am not a lawyer.
Theres only 6 billion citizens, if 100,000 of them commit "Copyright Infringement" we must punish the masses.
If you don't like it, you've got the 100,000 to blame. New topic; the monthly shipment of soap and socks has arrived. Collect your soap and socks, then it's lights out at 21:00, ladies. We've got a twenty mile hike at 05:00.
The mythbuster episodes about speed cameras are horribly boring, since you know from the start that if they were to find something that actually works and is feasible, they would not be allowed to air it.
Except they did find and air one way: The changing plate system. Even more illegal than speeding though...
Overpopulation is not a claimed fact, it is just a fact. Go outside and see for yourself.
I just did. I saw only one other human being within sight range. Apparently there's still a lot of space on the landmasses but some people don't mind crowding together for some benefits.
Put everything in writing to cover your ass if you like, but you don't get to hold on to things until someone n levels above you gives you a personal audience.
If "n" and "personal audience" are defined in policy, then yes, I do. In fact, even if I don't want to, I'm required to. Childs wasn't some Mayor groupie looking for his "Ohmygawd! I just talked in private with the Mayor!" moment. Maybe by the time he finally talked with the Mayor he was a little grumpy from being held in jail, and he was less cordial so it might seem like he was telling the Mayor to kiss his feet, but the impression I get is that he was concerned that his prior boss was *bad news* and that he (Terry) should follow the rules and only let the Mayor have the password.
Just for him, or for every disgruntled former employee who's petulantly holding on to city property?
If the policy states that the Mayor, and only the Mayor is allowed to take my mop from me when I'm fired from janitorial, then I'm sure as hell not going to give it to my boss who might want to misuse it to clean up a stain he made before someone found out, or to my former coworker who might stop up a toilet when they tried to use it like a plunger, or to the secretary, who I know will leave it lying around just anywhere. I mean, my God, Man! It's A MOP! Can't you understand how important it is!?
It's my mop.
Of course, that's a little silly, but imagine it were something a little more important, like say network level root passwords that might allow your boss to clean up a little political mess stored on someone's email, or tcpdump info to blackmail with... and that maybe when you get to talk to the mayor, the secretary's also listening, and she's probably the one writing it down, where she'll leave it out for everyone to see, or send it via snail mail in a non-security envelope. Hell yes, I think the mayor should "step" for the five minutes that it takes maybe once every ten years that they lose a senior network admin. Chances are it's not even the same mayor each time.
I think, what most lay people don't understand is that the rule: 'Don't give out passwords indiscriminately' is equivalent to the Hippocratic oath for some IT admins
No kidding; every time I get a user who starts saying "do you need may passsword? It's Fluf-", I start plugging my ears and loudly saying "NO NO NO NO NO". Once they stop, I explain: 1) never share your password 2) when it is absolutely truly necessary, like life or death, never say it out loud unless you're in a cone of silence, watch the person you shared it with, and change your password immediately after they're done. 3) I don't ever want to know your passwords, ever.
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The realistic threat of facebook vis a vis privacy is that of your youthful indiscretions being on wide display for coworkers and bosses to see.
See also: Craigslist Killer. They keep making more and more information public. Profile pics earlier, and now likes of local restaurants/bars/clubs. Mix with the forced usage of real names, and you've got a perfect $&@^-storm.
Why be on Facebook at all? They don't run it for warm fuzzy feelings. The bulk of the $$$$ is contained in its user data so they'll tap that well more and more as time goes on, not less.
I'm not necessarily worried about privacy from Facebook or their corporate partners; I'm much more worried about what stalker girls would learn about me in the newly public information (and what's made public next, contact info, address, messages, chat logs?). Girls who stalk geeks are *crazy*
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After reading all the above comments, Im kind of surprised that I am in the minority in that I do admin work, and dont hate computers really in any way. In my work life, its heavily sysadmin type of stuff. I dont hate any of our servers, or the software that runs on them. This is what happens when you make good choices.
I usually reserve my hate for the people who make bad choices for me (the sysadmin) against my protests. Of course, this gets expressed as hatred of specific POS machines they mandated because hatred of the people is less socially acceptable. For the most part, I love computers, and my work and free time revolve around them. My work often feels like free time, especially when I'm surfing /.
I'd love to meet a cop who refused to speed when not necessary for the job because of the principal of upholding the law, but I suspect such individuals make up less than 1% of cops, rather than 99%.
I've seen a lot of cops follow the speed limit where I live, but It's not so much out of principle as it is waiting for some schlup who didn't see the cop car to turn in front of the giant wall of cars, and go the traditional 5-over. Then it's lights on, and the traffic can start to flow in a safe manner with actual passing and lane changing.
Tribalism. Us vs. them. If you bring down a dirty cop, you'll be viewed like the member of the family that killed their abusive father in self defense; most will think better of it, but some - even a subset of the prior group - will be wary of you and might not trust you completely any more. In tribal warfare, trust is life and death.
Apple will probably have to pay large sums to end the licensing contracts, but that may be worth it to harm competitors. Even if they can't do that, they would be able to not-license any newly developed processors.
Oh gawd. Please. When is this hyperpoblic crap going to end?
When Apple stops proving all of the previous hyperbolic crap to be true. The next step after ARM is buying a few more congressmen than Microsoft.
Contrast that with the scramble to get 8.04 released on time and then look at the mess it was in when it was delivered. It wasn't stable until 8.04.1.
IIRC, the biggest push to create an 8.04.1 release in July of '08 was the debian SSL/SSH encryption key bug: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/13/1533212&from=rss
But all the marketing will be undone if they wait until 10.05. The marketing department has already fostered a desire in the populace for 10.04 LTS. Make it so.
Will you come to my workplace and enforce these rules (and the rules that others are responding with)? I see several desktops on my network downloading infected pdfs or trojans according to my SEP console. Thankfully these users aren't administrators, but the exploits are just a privilege escalation away from ownage.
I seem to remember that they were close to backing off of Scientologists, mainly because of Isaac Hayes (voice of Chef) is one. But then they went ahead and did it anyway, so he quit
What are you talking about? South Park caved and did a whole episode about What Scientologists Actually Believe.
"Each party shall provide that its judicial authorities shall have the authority at the request of the applicant, to issue an interlocutory injunction intended to prevent any imminent infringement of an intellectual property right [copyright or related rights or trademark]. An interlocutory injunction may also be issued, under the same conditions, against an [infringing] intermediary whose services are being used by a third party to infringe an intellectual property right. Each party shall also provide that provisional measures may be issued, even before the commencement of proceedings on the merits, to preserve relevant evidence in respect of the alleged infringement. Such measures may include inter alia the detailed description, the taking of samples or the physical seizure of documents or of the infringing goods." Um...What?
Any countries signing the treaty agree to make laws so their police forces must seize any goods that *AA thinks might possibly be imminently infringing. ? I am not a lawyer.
But, under the DMCA, you can't trade DeCSS.
ACTA would ban "the unauthorized circumvention of an effective technological measure."
Under ACTA, you can't write and/or use a DeCSS equivalent? That's worse than DMCA's non-distribution limitation.
Theres only 6 billion citizens, if 100,000 of them commit "Copyright Infringement" we must punish the masses.
If you don't like it, you've got the 100,000 to blame. New topic; the monthly shipment of soap and socks has arrived. Collect your soap and socks, then it's lights out at 21:00, ladies. We've got a twenty mile hike at 05:00.
The mythbuster episodes about speed cameras are horribly boring, since you know from the start that if they were to find something that actually works and is feasible, they would not be allowed to air it.
Except they did find and air one way: The changing plate system. Even more illegal than speeding though...
When you don't have ads? I guess Slashdot's slashvertisment is the best way, it's certainly the least unobtrusive way of advertising.
And blocking apple.slashdot.org solves that. *Don't ban me, Bro!
Overpopulation is not a claimed fact, it is just a fact. Go outside and see for yourself.
I just did. I saw only one other human being within sight range. Apparently there's still a lot of space on the landmasses but some people don't mind crowding together for some benefits.
based on the Ultima universe. Quoting VG247: "Set in the new world of Caledonia
So... How is it based on Ultima if it's not got anything to do with the former worlds?
Also: Is it just Britannia with kilts?
I love those things. The Gencon Battletech one was the first one I ever saw.
technically correct; The best kind of correct.
Best quote ever. And in the world of law, it's so true that it's not even questioned.
Put everything in writing to cover your ass if you like, but you don't get to hold on to things until someone n levels above you gives you a personal audience.
If "n" and "personal audience" are defined in policy, then yes, I do. In fact, even if I don't want to, I'm required to. Childs wasn't some Mayor groupie looking for his "Ohmygawd! I just talked in private with the Mayor!" moment. Maybe by the time he finally talked with the Mayor he was a little grumpy from being held in jail, and he was less cordial so it might seem like he was telling the Mayor to kiss his feet, but the impression I get is that he was concerned that his prior boss was *bad news* and that he (Terry) should follow the rules and only let the Mayor have the password.
Um, so your "real world" example is from a video game? A damn good video game, I'll grant you, but still...
"Funny" is often more memorable than "informative".
Just for him, or for every disgruntled former employee who's petulantly holding on to city property?
If the policy states that the Mayor, and only the Mayor is allowed to take my mop from me when I'm fired from janitorial, then I'm sure as hell not going to give it to my boss who might want to misuse it to clean up a stain he made before someone found out, or to my former coworker who might stop up a toilet when they tried to use it like a plunger, or to the secretary, who I know will leave it lying around just anywhere. I mean, my God, Man! It's A MOP! Can't you understand how important it is!?
It's my mop.
Of course, that's a little silly, but imagine it were something a little more important, like say network level root passwords that might allow your boss to clean up a little political mess stored on someone's email, or tcpdump info to blackmail with... and that maybe when you get to talk to the mayor, the secretary's also listening, and she's probably the one writing it down, where she'll leave it out for everyone to see, or send it via snail mail in a non-security envelope. Hell yes, I think the mayor should "step" for the five minutes that it takes maybe once every ten years that they lose a senior network admin. Chances are it's not even the same mayor each time.
I think, what most lay people don't understand is that the rule: 'Don't give out passwords indiscriminately' is equivalent to the Hippocratic oath for some IT admins
No kidding; every time I get a user who starts saying "do you need may passsword? It's Fluf-", I start plugging my ears and loudly saying "NO NO NO NO NO". Once they stop, I explain: 1) never share your password 2) when it is absolutely truly necessary, like life or death, never say it out loud unless you're in a cone of silence, watch the person you shared it with, and change your password immediately after they're done. 3) I don't ever want to know your passwords, ever.