Seems like these stories always come with quite a bit of fear mongering. We all died without the new findings, and we still die with them. *shrug* Kind of like fretting about a giant asteroid impact. Some things are out of our control, and fear/panic won't change that.
That's weird, my work machine is a 15" MBP... and I don't see the BSoDs (black, not blue), frequent reboots, dropped wifi, or the cursing in general that the 'doze users commonly do.
It's also easier to have an OS that does both the necessary evil of MS Office/Outlook, and at the same time gives me a usable bash shell without having to use PuTTY, Cygwin, or something similar.
But you know, YMMV...
When was the last time Apple actually built their computers?
The Mac Pro desktops are all allegedly built in the US.
Do not underestimate Dell. Their ability to sell laptops by the pallet to corporations is impressive.
Their ability to sell servers by the truckload to corporations is even more impressive... until a decent blade solution arrives that isn't so rectum-stretching expensive (*cough*CiscoUCS*cough*), I suspect that Dell will be around for a *very* long time...
(same with HP, come to think of it.)
Agreed with sibling... Charter is among the least evil telcom corporations out there.
Now CenturyStink and Comcrap...
To clarify... much worse for the president's political party and their chances in upcoming (next year's) elections.
Otherwise I doubt that they give a damn.
This is simply Congress saying they aren't important enough or don't want to be bothered with doing their job. Such a law is only good when quick action is needed to be taken. We are well beyond that point.
Actually, the original rationale was to give the president full legal authority to retaliate in the case of a nuclear attack on the US (at the time it was a real enough possibility). It made sense at the time, since requiring Congress to quickly convene at least a quorum and declare war, then have everyone scramble for the fallout shelter... all within 30 minutes? Yeah, no, that would be stupid.
Not saying that the power hasn't been abused (every single president since Johnson has done so), but it had a real reason for existing in the first place.
Probably true, but previous generations did not have a Government backing their actions. The fact that the Government is openly punishing free speech, and in reality amendments 1-4 have been discarded to at least an extent, plays well for "Social" movements attempting to squash those same amendments.
I quoted social due to the fact that many of these movements are not really social though presented as such. Agent provocateurs are nothing new to any Government, including the US.
Technically you are correct on Kevorkian's jail sentence. He did however lack the backing of his profession and lost his license to practice medicine because of those same acts.
Ethics is in everything, and should be. One of the biggest concerns currently with expanding AI is exactly the Ethics. People realize today how screwy people in Politics are, how dishonest they are, and how their agendas don't always match those of the populace. We can see this faster and more clearly due to the Internet (which amazingly people want controlled and censored even in the US).
Your statement which matches what I said is in regards to something being socially acceptable. Society dictates laws to meet their own criteria, and laws are required for a functional society.
Well, it is for sorting purposes. (They've got massive machines running Linux doing OCR which replaced manual sorting, and that requires... taking pictures of the mail.)
Right, but then the USPS was claiming that they simply threw away all of the resulting data when they were done with it. That's a ridiculous claim in every way.
Whether all the pictures are also retained is a completely different story. 10 years ago, I'd have said, "No; too expensive." But storage costs have plummeted, so nowadays, maybe so.
So what? They don't have to OCR anything that has a properly printed label; they just can it for bar codes. Those pieces of mail, which are the bulk of what passes through the postal system, never has to be photographed at all because they already know where it's coming from, where it's going, what it weighs and whether the package weight was reported accurately. The scans of the remaining minority of mail could quite reasonably be saved ten years ago, especially if you were not picky about resolution. Today, it's trivial.
But the real "so what" is that they are OCRing the mail, so even if they were throwing away all of those scans, they would still reasonably be storing the metadata. Why would you ever throw that away, unless forced? It's small, and it's valuable. But moreover, one of the Snowden revelations was that they are in fact storing all of that OCR data, it all gets handed straight to the feds. Before Snowden, it was generally believed (heh heh) that this data was simply flushed, and only the fringe believed that it was handed to the feds as a matter of course. Now we know that to be the case.
I thought you framed the picture and hung it above your bed
Yes, that was my fear, I didn't want slashdotters picturing me fapping to such a poster. I love freedom, but not in precisely that way
One of the requirements of PCI compliance with the credit card companies is that you don't use default passwords in any equipment tied to the card transaction.
True, but...
1) Does PCI compliance/certification even go near individual retailers/businesses, or does it stop cold at the merchant card processor that the retailer/PoS dials into with each transaction? I'm not quite seeing a small Mom-n-Pop store undergoing a PCI audit anytime soon...
2) For folks who do their own in-house processing, how many auditors do you know of that painstakingly test each and every PoS machine in every store (e.g. Wal-Mart, whenever they recertify)? Hell - they barely sample servers, which you tell them the hostnames for...
Yeah. Must be the buyers who are braindead, not people like yourself (and CmdrTaco) who can't see what Apple actually does bring to the table.
No, people like himself (and CmdrTaco) can see that what Apple actually does bring to the table is mostly marketing.
That comment would have been a lot cooler if I'd written it correctly. I bought a T-Shirt with his face on. I'd look a right moron walking around with a printed, loose picture of Snowden saying LOOK AT THIS
Yes, slashdot, I know it's only been a minute since I posted a comment, but could you just let me post this and move on with my life?
He who steps on others to reach the top has good balance.
