Comment Re:Oh great (Score 1, Interesting) 549
It's not hard to roll your own nursery rhyme:
I only have three fingers,
Suspended by three springs.
Instead of choosing passwords,
I do more important things.
There ya go, no Google hits.
It's not hard to roll your own nursery rhyme:
I only have three fingers,
Suspended by three springs.
Instead of choosing passwords,
I do more important things.
There ya go, no Google hits.
I'm currious if anyone is being exploited in the sense of exploiting children if they take their own pics and you end up seeing them.
Not in my view.
I'm just under the impression that the exploitation comes from children being forced or enticed into the photos and the viewer while not participating in the actual act, it enabling it by creating demand.
It's funny how Hollywood claims that downloading music and movies is destroying the entertainment industries, while the think-of-the-children crowd says downloading photos somehow "creates demand". I suspect both sides are just making shit up to bolster their particular agendas.
1) It is not a violation of US law to hack into Chinese computers.
I'm not so sure of that. There have been a a number of amendments over the years to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. One in particular broadens "the definition of "protected computer" in 18 U.S.C.1030(e)(2) to the full extent of Congress's commerce power by including those computers used in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce or communication."
That's a pretty wide net, and could be interpreted to include whatever the prosecutor wants it to.
They can cut off 100% of your income suddenly and at a whim.
No they can't. I have several job opportunities.
'll bet you cannot cut off 100% of their productivity at a whim, can you?
Nor would I want to. What happens to them after I leave doesn't really matter to me.
Because a site like that would drive down prices, thus merchants have no interest in listing their stuff on such a site.
Vendors providing the best product at the lowest price, friendliest service, and best support certainly would have an interest - they would make a lot of money The vendors trying to maximize profit at the expense of customers would not do so well. I don't see a problem with that.
Predicting what you want is hard.
If not impossible. Why not create a reverse-ebay web site where users tell you what they want to buy and sellers bid to sell it to them?
I'm sure I'm not a genius so it seems likely such a site exists already and I'm just not aware of it . If not, you can have the idea for free. Live long and prosper!
Look, we all hate Comcast, but something is fishy here about this guy. I will go as far as saying that the write-up is one-sided.
The last anti-Comcast Slashdot article I remember seeing was the one about them terminating Tor users. That turned out to be total bullshit, so I'm skeptical as well.
I'm no fan of Comcast but I do use them - if they give one iota of a reason to switch providers I would be delighted with DSL. Hell, I could use dialup or wireless and be happy as a clam. So far they haven't pissed me off enough to do so
With at will employment no - your employer can fire you for any reason they like.
Fine with me - I can quit for any reason I feel like too. Seems like an equitable arrangement.
Funny, I use search engines and read review sites.
Search results and reviews are ads, Einstein. Ones you solicit and are interested in.
In fact, ads want me to let arbitrary web sites run scripts and other crap which makes things less secure.
Yes, that is a problem. Those are the unsolicited ads I was referring to. I don't allow them either.
I don't think that there's any such thing as an advert that I actually want to see.
Ads are helpful when it comes time to make a purchasing decision. You aren't going to buy something if you don't know it exists.
When deciding what to buy I seek ads out. What I do not condone is unsolicited ads. Those add nothing of value.
"Obamacare" had no robust public option for that reason; the Big Pharmy, Big Insurance and Big Healthcare chains instead get even more money.
Single payer healthcare is still the objective. The ACA is a solid first step toward that goal, which is the main reason Republicans oppose the legislation. Both the GOP and the Pharma/Insurance/Healthcare corporations they represent have good reason to be worried.
I find it amusing to see how hard some people will work to try to compromise my inconsequential system.
Lol, same here. The only thing of value on my file server is the stuff I'm sharing publically anyways. When I look through my logs at all the fancy attack vectors I think to myself they'd be better off pointing a web browser at index.html, it would sure save them a lot of trouble.
So if I download lots of copyrighted music and films, but never listen to them -- then I'm apparently okay right?
Let's turn this idea on it's head. Since NSA is scooping up everything, they most assuredly are "collecting", lots of copyrighted material. All we need is for some enterprising entertainment industry lawyer to see how much money can be made by suing NSA for copyright infringement.
I can't help but to hear Inigo Montoya's voice saying "You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means".
George Orwell got it right. When you're free to redifine what words mean, you can justify and get away with anything.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
