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Comment Re:Never, ever going to happen. (Score 1) 419

I was under the impression that the public have the right to request copies of the images of themselves, or deletion or some such thing. If companies are making their video available to third parties, I don't see how they are able to control what happens with that video or comply with any legal requests regarding the video.

In addition, if the "Making available" argument can be used against copyright violation, then I would expect this argument also to be viable against any illegal use make of video "Made available" by this company to members of the public.

Comment Re:Well Then (Score 1) 754

Not all back/neck problems are permanently solvable like this, after a motorcycle accident at great speed, some things have suffered permanent degradation. A physiotherapist isn't going to be able to fix this as much as anyone isn't.

A chiropractic treatment is not "just a quick fix", it's just as much about eliminating the cause as a physiotherapist is. Except, I believe more so from experience.

Comment Re:If they could just get it right... (Score 1) 285

When mail is transmitted with transport level encryption, the attacker would have to implement a man in the middle attack to read the mail, which is more involved that simply looking at the stream and also requires the attacker to have access to some readable part of the path from source to destination mail server. This is somewhere in the ISP and most of this is over switches, which again are not so easily sniffed, or on a host that is routing the mail itself. And as we are just talking telephone bills and not banking data here, that's a lot of conditions that you have to put together to get at risk, and for what? Maybe the odds of a paper attack are then about the same?

Comment Re:Well Then (Score 1) 754

I knew you never tried it!

Thanks for answering the survey.

I can't you say obviously never had back pain, because I've known people who do get chronic backpain that would rather suffer for ages than try a chiropractor. But that's their choice. It works great for me.

Now I'm totally against quacks. I'm not religious and I'm not into scientology. I can also fully understand the sentiment of not having necessarily to have tried something to be sceptical. I'm just saying, that as someone that has suffered from really bad back pain from a motorcycle accident, that back cracking thing that chiropractors do is a bit a of life saver. And I'm also noticing that there is a lot of criticism from people who haven't tried it. I understand where they come from, but it's still noticable that these people have not been in a situation where they had bad back pain and tried it. So from a scientific point of view they are still commenting from a position of pure speculation. Which is equally unscientific.

Think about it dude. Throw aside all of the "meta" explanation that they often have which I also take with a grain of salt and just think about the effect that untangling bunches of signal wires might possibly have on the a well functioning computer system.

I've proven this to myself numerous times. It just works.

I "suspect" that part of the problem is that chiropractors understand techniques that indeed work, but "maybe" they themselves haven't been able to fully understand the reasoning why and thus the typical human reaction to try and come up with some explanation (Much like religion) kicks in. However, to me I damn well works. That's just my take on it. I'll still see chiropractors when my back or neck is bad cause they fix me. A traditional doctor will only issue an anti-imflamatory or pain killer, which does little to quickly sort out my problem.

Comment Re:Well Then (Score 1) 754

Personally, I take the physical things they do and walk away helped. I tend to ignore some more of the claims that sound more religious.

It's a matter of taking what works for you and leaving what doesn't. Clearly there is value in being selective with parts of anything that works for you and ignoring what doesn't.

I'd be curious to know whether the scientist that is being sued has even had back pain and subsequently received chiropractic treatment. I'm guessing not, as I'm sure he'd have a different opinion.

Comment Re:Well Then (Score 1) 754

You are clearly another person who has never been to a chiropractor. Nothing placebo about it. You visit the place in excuciating pain, you leave with considerably less pain and then rapidly it clears up.

It's also very different that just massaging. I've never heard things click during a massage. Physiotherapists massage but nothing works at getting rid of back or neck pain than a good click.

Comment Re:Well Then (Score 1) 754

If you have a really bad back. A traditional doctor may possibly just give you pain killers. Your pain could last for days. For those that have never been to a chiropractor, which I find is a lot of people anecdotally, after your back is "cracked", you typically have lost most of your pain and progress onto a rapid recovery.

I'm heard a lot of sceptics, but I've never met a sceptic that has actually been to a chiropractor yet.

Comment Re:Well Then (Score 1) 754

Funny how the people that say this typically have never been to a chiropracter. Although I admit that some of the stuff that talk about does seem a little hippy like, the phyical manipulation of a bad back "absolutely" works fantasically and it all makes sense to me as well. I'm not religious and not prone to believing various hysteria, but I've had a bad back at times for years as the result of a motorcycle accident, however a few trips to a chiropracter if it gets back eliminates the pain rapidly and makes me feel great as the muscles are not tense all over the place.

Incidentally, the more esoteric aspects are chiropractics I never even heard of for years, all I knew is they fixed backs brilliantly unlike the woofy physiotherapists that run you a little and expect things to get better.

Jeez as computer people it should seem logical that if you interfere with the nerve ways/signals you get problems. If you twist up tiny signal wires operating at high frequencies, you would interfere with their ability to transmit their messages correctly, it's logical man.

Comment Re:If they could just get it right... (Score 1) 285

So far I see two very simple and viable secure means:

a) Send encrypted, digitally signed pdfs, provide the passcode via logging in once with https

b) Make the link directly launch you into the document download dialog (i.e the file browser to choose the saving location) for the bill for the month after entering your credentials via https.

Both the above approaches are as secure as any method mentioned here, but involve a single click save to allow me to get on with my life.

Comment Re:If they could just get it right... (Score 1) 285

And we are not even talking banks here, just telephone company bills. For that matter, how secure is "repeatedly entering two random digits of your fixed reusable password", but even banks do it that way here in England in any case.

They don't have to send the passcode by mail, I'd permit myself to login via https to retrieve that.

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