And before the Jewish people pop out from the woodwork to call me an anti-Semite, I observed this first hand in Israel.
Jim Morrison said it best..."people are strange."
You can be against the actions of the country of Israel or against the political actions of Israel and not be anti-Semite. I sat in a technical symposium once where a very well known (one of the letters in RSA) scientist who happened to be of Jewish descent sat next to a cryptography expert who happened to be of Palestinian descent, and the point that neither of them would be sitting next to each other if they were in Israel, talking as if they were best friends (they were,) and enjoying each other's company was not lost to the rest of the folks in the room. They were asked by someone how this is possible, and Adi responded (I am paraphrasing here since it was a while ago and don't remember his exact words) that it is far easier to think clearly the further away you get from Israel. People so close to a conflict can only think about the conflict.
Part of the process of justifying violence on another person is dehumanizing them. Once you dehumanize them, it is far easier to treat them with little respect. One of the ways to dehumanize someone is to treat them as though they are something they aren't...a ploy used quite regularly here at Techdirt by the trolls (we are all pirates, right?) Justifies the insanity.
Though I'd suggest that like every conflict, there are folks on both sides dehumanizing one another. The fight's been going on so long that the folks don't even remember what the fight was originally about.
And there are good uses of those cards, when there was the recall of the tainted vegetable protein in the last year or so I got a handy call from the grocer telling me I had purchased something that had been recalled.
Two companies have given me discount cards without requiring information from me. So they are tracking a phantom. Of course, if they have a need to contact me, they won't be able to. They may be able to use inference or surveillance to discover who I am, but I really haven't used them enough to be worth the trouble.
However, I do have discount cards that I do have associated with my phone number (alone) or an email address (alone) which is quite useful for the reasons you mention, without providing additional information.
The thing is - I don't think Taplin does any actual teaching. He would have a problem with bright students calling him out on his errors. The lecture theatre would not be a safe environment for him.
Very much a member of the copyright industry, it does note that he is a clinical professor in Communications and Journalism. He conducts three seminars a year. If I remember seminars, from school, it was pretty much sit in the seat and listen to all the folks speak, with very little interaction.
And I quote,"Those who can, do; those who can't, teach".
I really hate this quote, because it isn't at all true. I'd fix it by saying "those who can't, teach badly." Like the teachers that get tenure and then don't teach anything more for the rest of their career.
In order to teach something effectively, you have to know how to do something well enough to be able to convey the process to others. Sure, you can wing it, but you are discovered as the charlatan you are before too long (and unfortunately, many education systems are set up to keep the charlatans around entirely too long.)
This is just an asshat, who, thanks to the Peter Principle, has reached the zenith of his career.
Technically true, but this gets muddy really fast. First, with the proper equipment "within earshot" may mean "within thousands of feet".
Many states have rules against "augmented hearing" for this purpose. I agree that this is a slippery slope.
But, more importantly, saying that you can't expect any form of privacy at all in public spaces is tantamount to saying that you don't get any privacy at all. Don't want anyone to know where you go? No problem, just don't go anywhere. Don't want anyone to hear what you say? No problem, just don't say anything. Don't want your purchase patterns to be tracked? No problem, just don't buy anything.
I agree. I don't like it myself, although this is currently happening now, you are being spied on often in route to work, and you probably don't know it. However, the inverse to this is that the law says "mind your own business" and makes even hearing discussions you are not apart of illegal, meaning you have to wear special earmuffs wherever you go. There has to be a happy medium between the two.
Which means that if privacy is important to you, the only solution currently is to stop leaving your house or engaging in social interactions.
People give away privacy all the time, just for free stuff or even reduced costs in stuff. I try not to, but then again, I am here giving away my privacy talking on this public forum. Life involves risks, and part of those risks are leaving the house and engaging in social interactions.
The problem isn't being spied upon (though I do have a problem with government and big business using personalized data to build profiles on me.) I, like everyone else other than bob, like Google, yet they spy on me all the time. It is just one of the risks of our society. I like discounts on food, so my preferred rewards cards sit in my pocket and get used whenever I go to the supermarket, even though they spy on me.
The problem is being spied upon, and then, having that data that is collected used out-of-context to prosecute you for a crime you didn't commit, but for which they have a confession from you for having committed.
Can we just move on to the point where each nation is represented by a skilled pilot and a single giant walking robot? I swear it seems like a lot of our international problems could be solved by an eight-ton crotch saw.
I can't remember what comedian it was, but I once heard a modest proposal from a comedian that every war should be fought by the politicians of the countries in question, so they could leave everyone else out of it. I thought it was a good idea at the time, but then I watched the Postman and that appeared to be the whole premise of the movie, which spoiled the idea for me.
Amen to that. I have never really been one to be good at tests.
I'm the exact opposite. I have very little problems with tests, even the Microsoft MCSE type tests. Your methodology for tests is spot on, though some times it gets a little harder when they throw two answers up that are almost exactly the same except for subtle differences. Even then, if you know the basics, you can usually deduce what one is "incorrect". That is, if the source material they use are correct, which is where the entire rub is with certifications.
I can't ask a question on a piece of paper more questions to verify what we are talking about.
What pisses me off is when my employer believes this gatekeeper stuff and wants me to take the tests. I actually have to dumb myself down and only pay attention to the material the certification authority provided and not include the real world information I've learned. Whenever I get questions wrong on a test, it is because I forget what the certification authority says and use my real-world knowledge instead. I've argued with certification authorities about questions that had obviously wrong answers which they said were correct, and I provided extensive proof as to why they were wrong, and every time the certification authority said "we only test on the material we provide, and our material says you're wrong." I even had experts in the field argue with me and against them, and in one case, the software developer whose software had questions on a test that were wrong argued for me, and the certification authority turned a blind eye to them and continued to argue (I still got every certification, and most of the authorities would say "why are you complaining, you got the certification anyway because you scored very high on the test.") For me, wrong information is wrong, whether or not it affects me. They should be striving to test on the correct information, but in my experience, they just don't care.
If the certification doesn't even care about the accuracy of their tests, how can they expect to have anyone take them seriously, but they do because they don't have to take the tests.
There are no, and should not be any, privacy rights in a public space. If you don't want your conversation to be heard, don't speak. Anyone within earshot can hear you.
On the other hand, this is a problem because it may eventually record what you say. That, specifically, is the problem here. If I just happen to be standing within earshot and *hear* what you say, that is one thing, and really chances are I'll forget or ignore what you said because I really don't care. If I record what you say, then I am eavesdropping on the conversation and usually this isn't done for good reasons. In this case, the recording can go on to be used out-of-context to prosecute someone, for saying something in public.
Certainly in the minds of the copyright maximalists...they even throw the legal hammer at those copying from the public domain because they have done it first. They even fight each other for copying from the public domain. I wish they would all just sue each other into oblivion so they can disappear into history and everyone else can evolve without their stupidity.
Further more, the community band I was in that recorded stars and stripes forever with released the song as public domain, and I am sure many, if not most other bands have done the same. I'd suggest fighting that one.
And even further, the official one is performed by the U.S. Marine Corps band, and is public domain, whether anyone likes that status or not.
Unfortunately for me, included in the parade was a boombox playing Stars and Stripes Forever in the background
Stars and Stripes Forever was written by John Phillip Sousa in 1896. It was officially recorded in 1897, and was made the national march for the US in that same year. It is in the public domain. Unless they were getting you for mechanical rights violation for the particular orchestra which recorded it after 1923, they don't have a leg to stand on.
Further more, the community band I was in that recorded stars and stripes forever with released the song as public domain, and I am sure many, if not most other bands have done the same. I'd suggest fighting that one.
Re: Re: Re: Good reason for something like dropbox
Are you using CM7 nightlies? If so, you don't have to wipe everything on your phone to upgrade. Simply wipe the dalvik cache then install the ROM and it'll do an in place update on the current nightly.
Yes, though I am still quite a way behind current. I'll have to try this out. Been listening to the developers tell me I should wipe everything so often, but really it is just an excuse for me to blow everything away and start over. I'm at CM9 for my Nook, and want to take the leap on the phone...just haven't gotten around to it yet.
e all know Google is an evil piracy genius. I have a ton of legitimate stuff stored on my Google Drive. Documents, pictures, ROMs, etc. Nothing illegal.
Me as well. All sorts of crap, including stuff for various MMORPGs I play, including a bunch of noob-training stuff for a particular game of the internet spaceship variety (pew pew.) I learned what sharepoint should be like playing with Google Docs this way. If Google ever gets raided like MegaUpload, I will be in real trouble (even though everything is backed up,) just because that is such a damn easy way to get stuff shared with the people I need to share it with (all legal to distribute since it came from my own sweat and I've released as public domain.) All I have to do is post the tiny url or goog.le link and everyone on the team has access.
So I'd like to semi add on to your points if I may, ltlw0lf.
I always appreciate it. And since my experience with jailbreaking Apple is limited to friends and family, since all I have is Android, I am not always aware of the subtle points.
For iOS devices, the minute you jailbreak you void your warranty and no amount of complaining will get you anywhere.
Which is sad. When my rooted phone had difficulties, I was really concerned as it was hardware difficulties and not related to the software. It turned out to be a simple fix, but I talked to the vendor and they told me they had no problem with me returning my rooted phone to them for support. If it turned out to be a hardware problem (and one that a simple battery replacement fixed, in my case,) then they would gladly replace it. However, for software, I was SOL, which I knew going in. I appreciated it, and from that point on I swore I'd only deal with these guys in the future.
Jailbreaking/Rooting IS legal, per DMCA exemptions.
Well, with mobile devices. But don't you dare jailbreak your XBOX 360...
I'm not an Apple user so I don't know, but if they jailbreak a device the developers can sell them updates regardless of what Apple thinks, right?
I've never jailbroken an Apple, but all my Androids are rooted, and the principles are the same. The problems are several-fold:
1. Unlike Android, Apple may "un-jailbreak" or even brick jail-broken phones on future releases. Also, if they don't use the update features from Apple, they will not be able to update to the latest version or install patches to fix problems.
2. You void the warrantee when you jailbreak the phone, so you get no support if something goes wrong. While some vendors will replace hardware broken phones regardless to whether they are running stock or not, many wont.
3. Jailbreaking/Rooting may be legal, or may not be. A judge ruled that jailbreaking Apple phones was perfectly legal, but other suits haven't gone the same way.
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Jim Morrison said it best..."people are strange."
You can be against the actions of the country of Israel or against the political actions of Israel and not be anti-Semite. I sat in a technical symposium once where a very well known (one of the letters in RSA) scientist who happened to be of Jewish descent sat next to a cryptography expert who happened to be of Palestinian descent, and the point that neither of them would be sitting next to each other if they were in Israel, talking as if they were best friends (they were,) and enjoying each other's company was not lost to the rest of the folks in the room. They were asked by someone how this is possible, and Adi responded (I am paraphrasing here since it was a while ago and don't remember his exact words) that it is far easier to think clearly the further away you get from Israel. People so close to a conflict can only think about the conflict.
Part of the process of justifying violence on another person is dehumanizing them. Once you dehumanize them, it is far easier to treat them with little respect. One of the ways to dehumanize someone is to treat them as though they are something they aren't...a ploy used quite regularly here at Techdirt by the trolls (we are all pirates, right?) Justifies the insanity.
Though I'd suggest that like every conflict, there are folks on both sides dehumanizing one another. The fight's been going on so long that the folks don't even remember what the fight was originally about.
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Two companies have given me discount cards without requiring information from me. So they are tracking a phantom. Of course, if they have a need to contact me, they won't be able to. They may be able to use inference or surveillance to discover who I am, but I really haven't used them enough to be worth the trouble.
However, I do have discount cards that I do have associated with my phone number (alone) or an email address (alone) which is quite useful for the reasons you mention, without providing additional information.
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Probably the same way that "Keep Calm and Party On" does. I'd be interested in buying the shirt.
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For further history: Wikipedia Article on Mr. Taplin
Very much a member of the copyright industry, it does note that he is a clinical professor in Communications and Journalism. He conducts three seminars a year. If I remember seminars, from school, it was pretty much sit in the seat and listen to all the folks speak, with very little interaction.
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I really hate this quote, because it isn't at all true. I'd fix it by saying "those who can't, teach badly." Like the teachers that get tenure and then don't teach anything more for the rest of their career.
In order to teach something effectively, you have to know how to do something well enough to be able to convey the process to others. Sure, you can wing it, but you are discovered as the charlatan you are before too long (and unfortunately, many education systems are set up to keep the charlatans around entirely too long.)
This is just an asshat, who, thanks to the Peter Principle, has reached the zenith of his career.
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I kinda wish that CBS (and the others) would go dance on Sagittarius A.
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Many states have rules against "augmented hearing" for this purpose. I agree that this is a slippery slope.
But, more importantly, saying that you can't expect any form of privacy at all in public spaces is tantamount to saying that you don't get any privacy at all. Don't want anyone to know where you go? No problem, just don't go anywhere. Don't want anyone to hear what you say? No problem, just don't say anything. Don't want your purchase patterns to be tracked? No problem, just don't buy anything.
I agree. I don't like it myself, although this is currently happening now, you are being spied on often in route to work, and you probably don't know it. However, the inverse to this is that the law says "mind your own business" and makes even hearing discussions you are not apart of illegal, meaning you have to wear special earmuffs wherever you go. There has to be a happy medium between the two.
Which means that if privacy is important to you, the only solution currently is to stop leaving your house or engaging in social interactions.
People give away privacy all the time, just for free stuff or even reduced costs in stuff. I try not to, but then again, I am here giving away my privacy talking on this public forum. Life involves risks, and part of those risks are leaving the house and engaging in social interactions.
The problem isn't being spied upon (though I do have a problem with government and big business using personalized data to build profiles on me.) I, like everyone else other than bob, like Google, yet they spy on me all the time. It is just one of the risks of our society. I like discounts on food, so my preferred rewards cards sit in my pocket and get used whenever I go to the supermarket, even though they spy on me.
The problem is being spied upon, and then, having that data that is collected used out-of-context to prosecute you for a crime you didn't commit, but for which they have a confession from you for having committed.
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I can't remember what comedian it was, but I once heard a modest proposal from a comedian that every war should be fought by the politicians of the countries in question, so they could leave everyone else out of it. I thought it was a good idea at the time, but then I watched the Postman and that appeared to be the whole premise of the movie, which spoiled the idea for me.
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I'm the exact opposite. I have very little problems with tests, even the Microsoft MCSE type tests. Your methodology for tests is spot on, though some times it gets a little harder when they throw two answers up that are almost exactly the same except for subtle differences. Even then, if you know the basics, you can usually deduce what one is "incorrect". That is, if the source material they use are correct, which is where the entire rub is with certifications.
I can't ask a question on a piece of paper more questions to verify what we are talking about.
What pisses me off is when my employer believes this gatekeeper stuff and wants me to take the tests. I actually have to dumb myself down and only pay attention to the material the certification authority provided and not include the real world information I've learned. Whenever I get questions wrong on a test, it is because I forget what the certification authority says and use my real-world knowledge instead. I've argued with certification authorities about questions that had obviously wrong answers which they said were correct, and I provided extensive proof as to why they were wrong, and every time the certification authority said "we only test on the material we provide, and our material says you're wrong." I even had experts in the field argue with me and against them, and in one case, the software developer whose software had questions on a test that were wrong argued for me, and the certification authority turned a blind eye to them and continued to argue (I still got every certification, and most of the authorities would say "why are you complaining, you got the certification anyway because you scored very high on the test.") For me, wrong information is wrong, whether or not it affects me. They should be striving to test on the correct information, but in my experience, they just don't care.
If the certification doesn't even care about the accuracy of their tests, how can they expect to have anyone take them seriously, but they do because they don't have to take the tests.
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There are no, and should not be any, privacy rights in a public space. If you don't want your conversation to be heard, don't speak. Anyone within earshot can hear you.
On the other hand, this is a problem because it may eventually record what you say. That, specifically, is the problem here. If I just happen to be standing within earshot and *hear* what you say, that is one thing, and really chances are I'll forget or ignore what you said because I really don't care. If I record what you say, then I am eavesdropping on the conversation and usually this isn't done for good reasons. In this case, the recording can go on to be used out-of-context to prosecute someone, for saying something in public.
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Believe the word you are looking for is photons.
But the statement is correct despite the minor correction.
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You mean like fairly paying artists that have been dead for 80 years with no offspring? Yup. This is the copyright maximalist's wet dream.
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Certainly in the minds of the copyright maximalists...they even throw the legal hammer at those copying from the public domain because they have done it first. They even fight each other for copying from the public domain. I wish they would all just sue each other into oblivion so they can disappear into history and everyone else can evolve without their stupidity.
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Most of Hawaii ends up on Africa, and the top of Alaska ends up in Antarctica.
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Re: Re: Re: Youtube copyright violation
And even further, the official one is performed by the U.S. Marine Corps band, and is public domain, whether anyone likes that status or not.
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Re: Re: Youtube copyright violation
Stars and Stripes Forever was written by John Phillip Sousa in 1896. It was officially recorded in 1897, and was made the national march for the US in that same year. It is in the public domain. Unless they were getting you for mechanical rights violation for the particular orchestra which recorded it after 1923, they don't have a leg to stand on.
Further more, the community band I was in that recorded stars and stripes forever with released the song as public domain, and I am sure many, if not most other bands have done the same. I'd suggest fighting that one.
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Yes, though I am still quite a way behind current. I'll have to try this out. Been listening to the developers tell me I should wipe everything so often, but really it is just an excuse for me to blow everything away and start over. I'm at CM9 for my Nook, and want to take the leap on the phone...just haven't gotten around to it yet.
e all know Google is an evil piracy genius. I have a ton of legitimate stuff stored on my Google Drive. Documents, pictures, ROMs, etc. Nothing illegal.
Me as well. All sorts of crap, including stuff for various MMORPGs I play, including a bunch of noob-training stuff for a particular game of the internet spaceship variety (pew pew.) I learned what sharepoint should be like playing with Google Docs this way. If Google ever gets raided like MegaUpload, I will be in real trouble (even though everything is backed up,) just because that is such a damn easy way to get stuff shared with the people I need to share it with (all legal to distribute since it came from my own sweat and I've released as public domain.) All I have to do is post the tiny url or goog.le link and everyone on the team has access.
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Re: Re: Re: Jailbreak?
I always appreciate it. And since my experience with jailbreaking Apple is limited to friends and family, since all I have is Android, I am not always aware of the subtle points.
For iOS devices, the minute you jailbreak you void your warranty and no amount of complaining will get you anywhere.
Which is sad. When my rooted phone had difficulties, I was really concerned as it was hardware difficulties and not related to the software. It turned out to be a simple fix, but I talked to the vendor and they told me they had no problem with me returning my rooted phone to them for support. If it turned out to be a hardware problem (and one that a simple battery replacement fixed, in my case,) then they would gladly replace it. However, for software, I was SOL, which I knew going in. I appreciated it, and from that point on I swore I'd only deal with these guys in the future.
Jailbreaking/Rooting IS legal, per DMCA exemptions.
Well, with mobile devices. But don't you dare jailbreak your XBOX 360...
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Re: Jailbreak?
I've never jailbroken an Apple, but all my Androids are rooted, and the principles are the same. The problems are several-fold:
1. Unlike Android, Apple may "un-jailbreak" or even brick jail-broken phones on future releases. Also, if they don't use the update features from Apple, they will not be able to update to the latest version or install patches to fix problems.
2. You void the warrantee when you jailbreak the phone, so you get no support if something goes wrong. While some vendors will replace hardware broken phones regardless to whether they are running stock or not, many wont.
3. Jailbreaking/Rooting may be legal, or may not be. A judge ruled that jailbreaking Apple phones was perfectly legal, but other suits haven't gone the same way.
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