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Comment Re:As a European (Score 1) 151

by PartyBoy!911 (#42706331) Attached to: US Activists Oppose US Govt Calls To Weaken EU Privacy Rules

What about the arguments against censorship of people. Hypothetical Bob has his account on Facebook and wants everything about him removed from Facebook. Susan remembers Bob before he went crazy and wants to keep his picture up from their wedding. Does Bob's desire to remove himself from Facebook trump Susan's right to remember her husband as he was before he took the crazy train out of town?

What's so crazy about removing yourself from facebook. YES his right to remove himself from Facebook trumps Susan's right to have their wedding picture on Facebook. If she want's to remember him, frame a picture and hang it on the friggin wall. I don't get why people should have the right to post Bob's picture on FB at all.

Personally I threaten everybody with murder so they don't put any pictures of me on facebook.

Comment Re:And here is the solution (Score 1) 130

by PartyBoy!911 (#42699991) Attached to: In Brazil, Trees To Call For Help If Illegally Felled

Remember this is a rain forest. You would need quite a lot of energy as the water absorbs the EMP and a big tree will act as grounded antenna

http://www.set2survive.com/EMP_survivors_notebook_1.html

External antennas will also absorb EMP energy and the larger
the antenna the more it will absorb. Any large metal structure will collect or absorb EMP energy; if it is
grounded such as a water tower might be, then the energy will dissipate into the earth

Comment Re:vs MATE? (Score 1) 162

by PartyBoy!911 (#42638691) Attached to: SolusOS Forks Gnome 3 Fallback Mode

Have been using Cinnamon with Fedora 17 for over a year now and never looked back. At first there were some very anoying bugs, but at the moment it works very well and stable.

The only times I remember that don't run the default is when I install a new desktop. And the first thing I do is switch desktops. Just like I only use IE on windows to download an alternative browser.

Comment Re:Hmm (Score 1) 104

by PartyBoy!911 (#42638125) Attached to: Facebook's Graph Search Is a Privacy Test For Internet Users

And you all do this from separate internet connections and different browsers? If not, they still now it's you and they don't care if some of them are false.
They just aggregate all the data from all the accounts tied to you.
Even then, the more accounts FB has (even fakes), the more money they make. Or do you think they believe themselves all their users a real when they advertise their > 1 billion+ users.

Comment Re:Privacy Advice: Get a FB account (Score 1) 104

by PartyBoy!911 (#42638105) Attached to: Facebook's Graph Search Is a Privacy Test For Internet Users

Naturally I'd like to shoot people as I have no facebook account. ......But I also don't have guns.
Why should I have to change my behaviour because I maybe suspect?? What you are saying here is the same thing people told you in the former USSR etc.
I think I'd rather move to North Korea then the US at the moment.

Comment Re:Big Brother (Score 2) 97

by PartyBoy!911 (#42614851) Attached to: Europe's Got Talent For Geeks

His team's Guardian Angels project aims to develop wearable, self-powered gadgets than can warn their users of danger, encourage them to exercise, and collect environmental and health information that could be of use to doctors.

After actually reading the article, it's not Big Brother I fear the most.........
Clippy is far, far worse and should be treated as the plague

Comment Re:Big Brother (Score 1) 97

by PartyBoy!911 (#42614819) Attached to: Europe's Got Talent For Geeks

But you have to respect the way they market it. It's not big brother but angels watching you!
Sort of the "Ministry of Love" (Torture and Interrogation) and the "Ministry of Truth" (Propaganda) in 1984.

Maybe all the psycho stalkers en pedofiles out there should also rebrand themself as guardian angels.

Comment Re:"Full Names" seem to be the in thing (Score 1) 101

by PartyBoy!911 (#42429141) Attached to: Foursquare Will Display Users' Full Names By Default

It's called Fascist corporatism. In the US and a lot of the rest of the world it is Google, Facebook, Foursquare doing it for the goverment.

In China they don't need to do it through proxies:

http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/12/28/1311205/china-tightens-internet-restrictions

The NY Times reports China has once again stepped up its efforts to control the internet, passing a new set of rules by which internet users and ISPs must abide. In addition to requiring that users provide their real names to internet providers, the government says those providers are now more responsible for deleting or blocking posts that aren't agreeable to the Chinese authorities.

Same shit, different country

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: IPv6 multihoming: reality or far future? (ndtv.com)

Submitted by futhermocker
futhermocker writes: Since governments and businesses are moving to IPv6, I would like to do that as well. Next to speed and security advantages and the like, it would enable me to allocate a unique IP address for devices such as servers or security cams.
Of course it will still be a single link and in that respect not much different from IPv4 multhoming using LAN routing, but having multiple addresses would really be an advantage as each device could get its own DNS name.

My cable broadband provider is already experimenting by allocating IPv6 blocks to companies. If it becomes available for the public I would really like to tag on. But when searching for this topic, loads of "drafts" and experiments and information on expensive and/or complicated routing hardware bubbles up, but no real implementations.

My question would be: is IPv6 a thing from the far future or can I prepare myself for IPv6 as a "consumer", for instance, by installing a custom Linux to act as a multhome router and start using it on my LAN?

Submission + - Drawings Of Weapons Led To New Jersey Student's Arrest (cbslocal.com) 1

Submitted by
gannebraemorr
gannebraemorr writes: "'The Superintendent of the Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District said around 2 pm Tuesday, a 16 year old student demonstrated behavior that caused concern. A teacher noticed drawings of what appeared to be weapons in his notebook. School officials made the decision to contact authorities. Police removed the 16-year-old boy from Cedar Creek High School in Galloway Township Tuesday afternoon after school officials became concerned about his behavior. The student was taken to the Galloway Township Police Department. Police then searched the boy’s home on the 300 block of East Spencer Lane and found several electronic parts and several types of chemicals that when mixed together, could cause an explosion, police say. The unidentified teen was charged with possession of a weapon an [sic] explosive device and the juvenile was placed in Harbor Fields.'

If 'chemicals that when mixed together, could cause an explosion' is a crime, I'm pretty sure everyone's cleaning cabinets are evidence just waiting to be found. Bottle of Coke and Mentos... BRB, someone knocking at the door."

Comment Re:Just buy them an iPhone with a strap (Score 1) 610

by PartyBoy!911 (#41761665) Attached to: Would You Put a Tracking Device On Your Child?

Hahaha, use an iPhone with location services on for security? What if I'm a modern child abductor with some computer know how. With the current state of iPhone security I can find your kid so easy now.

I used to have to stalk the kids and wait for an opportunity. Now I just wait for the foursquare checkin at the playground with the twitter message "waiting for mommy to return from the mall" to abduct and rape your kid.

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