I fail to see why K-12 students need cell phones or wireless networks to learn a damned thing.
Wired networks are a win from a management, reliability, latency and bandwidth perspective. Not being constantly distracted by stray text messages is something I would also check in the plus column.
There is at least some credible evidence cell radiation is harmful especially to children. Given wireless technology simply is not required in any shape or form to educate students what precisely is the downside? If there is even a 1% risk and you can mitigate against it easily with no cost or risk to the mission (educating kids) then why not go there? What is the value prop against?
I know many are making sports analogies but doing away with sports and PE due to accidents is different because you are loosing something of value.
Last I checked chrome is basically webkit with a google facade. ChromeOS is basically linux with a web browser.
Google is not doing anything difficult or any heavy lifting or standsrds development work in thier own products. They are essentially producing dumb terminals which depend on propritary google central servers to work.
I personally don't see any the value in these schemes to me as an end user.
I feel for all those peeps out there seeing their utility bills skyrocket after these things are installed. The less baseload you use the more you pay. Since they can predict exactly what the usage will be at large scales the easier it becomes to tweak the system to extract maximum $$$.
In terms of privacy even with the best protections on paper it is still more shit that can be used against you... A divorce attrny filing subpeonas to make the case you are a lazy bastard who constantly sleeps in or LEA on a witch hunt finding the correlation they've been looking for.
Either way smart metering means we all loose regardless of the text of any legislation. It is sad too because in principal I like the idea of exposing real costs to the consumer.
China isn't a nice country. Just ask any small business owner who, on a trip there, had to give trade secrets of the company he represents to the person he would be dealing with... or the whole delegation would face imprisonment on some trumped up charge
I'm getting really sick and tired of ICANN. They used to have good people who actually cared about the network like 15 years ago. Today all such members of this organization who matter have long since fled.
Now it is just about policies to maximize profits at the expense of the network.
I wouldn't be surprised if they felt like they needed to make this change to counter the ill effects of their insane TLD policy.
I'm not saying this isn't affecting the water or that it's only the land owners' business. My point is that you shouldn't blame the land owners for taking the payments. This is the poorest area of Pennsylvania.
Suppose I could blame Cheney for carving those infamous exemptions for gas drilling in the clean water act but screw it I blame the land owners as well. Being poor is no excuse for ignorance or simply not caring about the effects your actions could have on others.
The situation now is: - an obsolete RFC2965 cookies standard with no average user know/can manage safely, - and a still to be standardized HTML5 incompatible client storage and database.
New cookies should become part and merge with the HTML5 client side storage, with backward compatible but marked obsolete API.
If you liked storing pointers to data kept on servers you will *LOVE* storing even more data from each site on your computer.
Well I guess right up until the point where all the fine folks on the Intertubes intentionally design sites to consume massive amounts of disk space across an infinite number of attacker domains and or force erasure of legitimate content after the fixed storage pool is exhausted.
I don't really care what Linux is doing in 2031. I'm more concerned about 2038. Or rather, what it's not doing toward the end of January. On a serious note, how is Year 2038 being dealt with?
Every time I look into this problem the answer always appears to be absolutely nothing. Just fixing the problem for 64-bit linux is not going to cut it.
Some are already starting to run into problems with needing to store future dates today.
The effects of gravity are at macro scales, not quantum scales.
The effects are on all scales. Just because nobody can currently describe how a single photon warps space as it travels does not mean it does not occur. We know it does.
Throughout the years how many harmless sheep hearders were killed in the hunt simply because they kind of sort of looked like Osama?
In this OP his son and a woman used as a human shield also died.
Osama is a monster and the world is better off with him gone... I'm not sure celebrating a death in an action that cost others their lives would make me much better.
Was it just me or did TFAs say that it was law for telcos to store location data on everyone for years?
I realize the systems need to keep track of where you are in a cell network so that they can send you information but what law says this data must be stored in case there is ever a LEA inquery at some point in the future?
Exactly people are freaking out about this and by using the device you agreed to it. I guess people don't read anything anymore
Anymore? When did we start? Apples 9 million page EULA could say you agree to hand over your first born to Steve Jobs and there would be millions of people who would never know. Nobody is going to read and understand an intentionally confusing and indirect agreement written by overpaid lawyers. Do you know anyone who has actually read and understood the whole fricking agreement?
This is why the US has laws against companies acting like asshats and why Congress is taking interest in this issue.
It is OK to keep a log of the devices whereabouts... on the device. It is not OK to transfer that data to another entity without explicit permission of the devices owner... and better ask one time too often for that permission...
No it is NOT ok to store it on the device unless the user explicitly allows it. The data can be used against you by an advasary if lost or stolen. The law may use it against you even if you are "innocent" and think you have "nothing to hide".
You may think I'm paranoid but hundreds of thousands of US citizens file restraining orders each year against people who have already or are threatening to harm them. They have damn good reasons to be paranoid.
I already somewhat disliked Apple for hardware lockin and rediculous platform controls but their doubling down on this leaves me never wanting to go near an Apple products for the rest of my life.
Next time someone makes fun by shouting authentically "Fire! Fire! Run!" in a theater or some other 'suitable' place, and your relatives die there having been crushed by the panicking crowd trying to get out, maybe then you'll remember that there are certain situations where Freedom of Speech is limited, and rightfully so, precisely to prevent panic and to save lives
After the double talk and contradictory statements the Japanese government and TEPCO have been spewing for months screw this nonsensical analogy... Nobody is going to die in a stampede over information about the nuclear disaster.
People have a right to make their own decisions and discuss the issues without government being arbiters of "fact".
How would you feel about USG outlawing the "loose change" 9/11 conspiracy video just because it inflames anti government cooks? Part of living is having a brain and using it.
The Internet is full of nonsense and hyperbole..part of using it effectivly is having a brain and thinking rather than beliving everything you read. Heck the same goes for life in General.
Anyway I'm sure Japanese need no help evading government censors...it is a shame and inexcusable the government of any country would behave this way.
All cell-phone manufacturers are required to have GPS data for emergency 911 response. This is required by US law. It seems disingenuous that politicians are now upset that this data is being recorded
There is no requirement any location data be stored in non-vilotile memory for mobile e911 system to function properly...
To put it another way...your cell phone keeps records of your SMS sessions. It is disingenuous that you would now be upset that this data is being posted in the front page of the new york times.
Worth mentioning in Android's case is only used for caching so the data gets overwritten every so often. Unlike iPhone's
When you say "overwritten" does the same transistor array get rewritten or is the operation subject to the wear leveling algorithm like everything else on the file system meaning the data can still actually be recovered leaving it in reality no better than the iphone?
One thing I can't stand is unit limits or at least low ones I run into constantly. It sucks to continuously be forced to execute your own people to make room for others.
And while space ships, mechs and walking robotic creatures look cool war elephants and old geezers spouting "wooohloooohooo woooloooo" make me smile.
Over time their once rubbery and flexible elastic computer is starting to become brittle and less flexible as it dries out and hardens. I wouldn't want to be anywhere near their datacenter when it finally snaps.
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I fail to see why K-12 students need cell phones or wireless networks to learn a damned thing.
Wired networks are a win from a management, reliability, latency and bandwidth perspective. Not being constantly distracted by stray text messages is something I would also check in the plus column.
There is at least some credible evidence cell radiation is harmful especially to children. Given wireless technology simply is not required in any shape or form to educate students what precisely is the downside? If there is even a 1% risk and you can mitigate against it easily with no cost or risk to the mission (educating kids) then why not go there? What is the value prop against?
I know many are making sports analogies but doing away with sports and PE due to accidents is different because you are loosing something of value.
Iraq had nothing to do with Osama.
Can I just apply for a trademark on every combination of every possible word and get it over with? It is rediculous people are allowed to do this.
Last I checked chrome is basically webkit with a google facade. ChromeOS is basically linux with a web browser.
Google is not doing anything difficult or any heavy lifting or standsrds development work in thier own products. They are essentially producing dumb terminals which depend on propritary google central servers to work.
I personally don't see any the value in these schemes to me as an end user.
I feel for all those peeps out there seeing their utility bills skyrocket after these things are installed. The less baseload you use the more you pay. Since they can predict exactly what the usage will be at large scales the easier it becomes to tweak the system to extract maximum $$$.
In terms of privacy even with the best protections on paper it is still more shit that can be used against you... A divorce attrny filing subpeonas to make the case you are a lazy bastard who constantly sleeps in or LEA on a witch hunt finding the correlation they've been looking for.
Either way smart metering means we all loose regardless of the text of any legislation. It is sad too because in principal I like the idea of exposing real costs to the consumer.
China isn't a nice country. Just ask any small business owner who, on a trip there, had to give trade secrets of the company he represents to the person he would be dealing with... or the whole delegation would face imprisonment on some trumped up charge
Ok, which ones should I talk to?
I'm getting really sick and tired of ICANN. They used to have good people who actually cared about the network like 15 years ago. Today all such members of this organization who matter have long since fled. Now it is just about policies to maximize profits at the expense of the network. I wouldn't be surprised if they felt like they needed to make this change to counter the ill effects of their insane TLD policy.
I'm not saying this isn't affecting the water or that it's only the land owners' business. My point is that you shouldn't blame the land owners for taking the payments. This is the poorest area of Pennsylvania.
Suppose I could blame Cheney for carving those infamous exemptions for gas drilling in the clean water act but screw it I blame the land owners as well. Being poor is no excuse for ignorance or simply not caring about the effects your actions could have on others.
What makes you think they don't understand?
It's probably true, but in this case I don't think they're necessarily wrong.
Legislating that which is easily solved with technology is a dead giveway.
There is no reason your browser can't be configured to ASK you first before storing cookies if you care so much.
The technical solution works globally on all systems throughout the world.
The legislative solution is limited to the handful of sites in the UK that comply.
The situation now is:
- an obsolete RFC2965 cookies standard with no average user know/can manage safely,
- and a still to be standardized HTML5 incompatible client storage and database.
New cookies should become part and merge with the HTML5 client side storage, with backward compatible but marked obsolete API.
If you liked storing pointers to data kept on servers you will *LOVE* storing even more data from each site on your computer.
Well I guess right up until the point where all the fine folks on the Intertubes intentionally design sites to consume massive amounts of disk space across an infinite number of attacker domains and or force erasure of legitimate content after the fixed storage pool is exhausted.
I don't really care what Linux is doing in 2031. I'm more concerned about 2038. Or rather, what it's not doing toward the end of January. On a serious note, how is Year 2038 being dealt with?
Every time I look into this problem the answer always appears to be absolutely nothing. Just fixing the problem for 64-bit linux is not going to cut it.
Some are already starting to run into problems with needing to store future dates today.
The effects of gravity are at macro scales, not quantum scales.
The effects are on all scales. Just because nobody can currently describe how a single photon warps space as it travels does not mean it does not occur. We know it does.
Throughout the years how many harmless sheep hearders were killed in the hunt simply because they kind of sort of looked like Osama?
In this OP his son and a woman used as a human shield also died.
Osama is a monster and the world is better off with him gone... I'm not sure celebrating a death in an action that cost others their lives would make me much better.
Was it just me or did TFAs say that it was law for telcos to store location data on everyone for years?
I realize the systems need to keep track of where you are in a cell network so that they can send you information but what law says this data must be stored in case there is ever a LEA inquery at some point in the future?
Who wants some cake?
I'll have some yellow cake.
Exactly people are freaking out about this and by using the device you agreed to it. I guess people don't read anything anymore
Anymore? When did we start? Apples 9 million page EULA could say you agree to hand over your first born to Steve Jobs and there would be millions of people who would never know. Nobody is going to read and understand an intentionally confusing and indirect agreement written by overpaid lawyers. Do you know anyone who has actually read and understood the whole fricking agreement?
This is why the US has laws against companies acting like asshats and why Congress is taking interest in this issue.
It is OK to keep a log of the devices whereabouts... on the device. It is not OK to transfer that data to another entity without explicit permission of the devices owner... and better ask one time too often for that permission...
No it is NOT ok to store it on the device unless the user explicitly allows it. The data can be used against you by an advasary if lost or stolen. The law may use it against you even if you are "innocent" and think you have "nothing to hide".
You may think I'm paranoid but hundreds of thousands of US citizens file restraining orders each year against people who have already or are threatening to harm them. They have damn good reasons to be paranoid.
I already somewhat disliked Apple for hardware lockin and rediculous platform controls but their doubling down on this leaves me never wanting to go near an Apple products for the rest of my life.
Next time someone makes fun by shouting authentically "Fire! Fire! Run!" in a theater or some other 'suitable' place, and your relatives die there having been crushed by the panicking crowd trying to get out, maybe then you'll remember that there are certain situations where Freedom of Speech is limited, and rightfully so, precisely to prevent panic and to save lives
After the double talk and contradictory statements the Japanese government and TEPCO have been spewing for months screw this nonsensical analogy... Nobody is going to die in a stampede over information about the nuclear disaster.
People have a right to make their own decisions and discuss the issues without government being arbiters of "fact".
How would you feel about USG outlawing the "loose change" 9/11 conspiracy video just because it inflames anti government cooks? Part of living is having a brain and using it.
The Internet is full of nonsense and hyperbole..part of using it effectivly is having a brain and thinking rather than beliving everything you read. Heck the same goes for life in General.
Anyway I'm sure Japanese need no help evading government censors...it is a shame and inexcusable the government of any country would behave this way.
At least run powertop and compare the output of lspci -vv for each kernel.
All cell-phone manufacturers are required to have GPS data for emergency 911 response. This is required by US law. It seems disingenuous that politicians are now upset that this data is being recorded
There is no requirement any location data be stored in non-vilotile memory for mobile e911 system to function properly...
To put it another way...your cell phone keeps records of your SMS sessions. It is disingenuous that you would now be upset that this data is being posted in the front page of the new york times.
Worth mentioning in Android's case is only used for caching so the data gets overwritten every so often. Unlike iPhone's
When you say "overwritten" does the same transistor array get rewritten or is the operation subject to the wear leveling algorithm like everything else on the file system meaning the data can still actually be recovered leaving it in reality no better than the iphone?
One thing I can't stand is unit limits or at least low ones I run into constantly. It sucks to continuously be forced to execute your own people to make room for others.
And while space ships, mechs and walking robotic creatures look cool war elephants and old geezers spouting "wooohloooohooo woooloooo" make me smile.
Over time their once rubbery and flexible elastic computer is starting to become brittle and less flexible as it dries out and hardens. I wouldn't want to be anywhere near their datacenter when it finally snaps.