Comment Re:My Personal Tip (Score 1) 310
I'm hoping that Windows 8 knowledge will prove to be as useful as Microsoft Bob knowledge.
I'm hoping that Windows 8 knowledge will prove to be as useful as Microsoft Bob knowledge.
A permanent state of war is not good for any society.
It's good for the people in power. What makes you think that they care whether or not it's good for society.
Isn't the same, because milling is subtractive, and 3D printing is additive.
So a CNC mill is a 3D eraser.
How about a customized bullet with your own name on it. You know how they say "somewhere out there is a bullet with your name on it"?
Wouldn't you feel a lot safer if you owned that bullet?
You're assuming the drones won't be armed.
Everybody is an above average driver, just ask them.
Exactly. It's not a loophole, it's a feature.
There are situations where thinking you're secure when you're not is worse than knowing you're not secure.
Currently PKI works by deluding people into thinking that PKI works. A chain of trust is useless if you can't trust the top of the chain. It's all based on the illusion that the CAs are trustworthy.
Since CAs can (and have) been compromised before, then the only thing having multiple CAs will do is make the illusion prettier. What rule says that the "bad guys" only compromise one CA at a time?
When a company is offering you a "free" service, anybody with half a brain should be able to figure out that there is a catch, regardless of how vague the ToS is.
I agree with you, but I think the Post Office would be in serious trouble if they used OCR to read all the post cards going through the system
How do you think automatic mail sorting works?
and tailor junk mail based on them
The real issue here has nothing to do with scanning of the email. Having a business model based on storing information about their customers and selling that service to advertisers is the issue. If customers are going to sign up for "free" services under this business model (Gmail, Facebook, etc) they need to understand that "free" comes with a price. You're signing up for a "free" service with a company who's real paying customer is an advertiser.
Complaining that your email provider is scanning your email is just silly.
So are the mail servers themselves. It's pretty difficult to deliver the email in the first place without "scanning" at least part of it.
but if achieving that drives away customers and gives you a reputation as a pain in the ass that nobody wants to deal with, its not really good business practice is it?
It is if phase two of your plan is to either eliminate or buy out the majority of your competition.
This, I think, is one of the big problems. The easier it is to get something patented, the more money the USPTO makes. So it's in their best interest to allow anyone to patent anything.
I'm concerned about the implications of storing personal data on Gmail, Facebook, and other social media sites.
Good.
Insights and tips are appreciated.
Don't.
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