Re: Even proper Republicans don't call this capitalism.
This is not only capitalism, it borders on being a very pure form of it: where the private entities themselves maintain control by writing the regulations.
Personally, I noticed the discrepancy but thought it was of little importance. It just strongly indicates that VTech is lying about the number of kids involved, but that was already a well-established fact.
I, too, remember when the CERT was a force for good. I haven't thought of them like that in many years, but I don't remember when or why my attitude changed.
The lure of IOT has many companies collecting far more data than they could ever even conceivably need
Which is why everyone should avoid IoT things like the plague. The sad thing is that IoT could be done in a way that eliminates this problem simply by having the devices talk to a server placed in the home instead of in the cloud. But that would eliminate the entire entire reason companies are so excited about IoT: the expanded spying opportunities.
I configure my whole-net firewall so it blocks outgoing connections just as fervently as incoming ones. No outbound traffic is allowed without my explicitly allowing it. We long ago passed the point where you can consider either side of your firewall as trustworthy.
"Could LA require that all drivers mount GPS tracking units on their cars"
My understanding is yes, as the law stands such a requirement can be made since driving is a privilege granted by the state. Whether or not it would survive a constitutional argument in court is an unknown.
I disagree with that point. Prostitution being illegal is what makes it so easy to victimize prostitutes,so the law has direct bearing on that. If it were legal, it would be regulated the same as any other business and the workers would have the same protection from abuse as everyone else.
"General Custer pretty much rapes an Indian woman."
Not "pretty much", the raping is the point of the game.
What I find interesting about Custer's Revenge (beyond the fact that people still talk about an ancient, low budget, objectively terrible game) is that all of the public denouncing of the game in the day resulted in sales of the game being about double that of the other similar titles in the company's catalog. (CR sold about 80,000 copies. Their next best selling title was about 40,000).
"apple is just a foreign stock with lots of stores in the us"
Apple outsources all its manufacturing offshore, but it does most product development in the US. Those are real engineering jobs, not retail.
Apple is pretty much a multinational now. It's no more a Chinese company than it is a US company. It's independent of nationality. This is how most large corporations are.
I tend to agree with Scott Adams on the stupidity question: we're all idiots. Not all the time about everything, but often enough that it's wise to take it into account.
"Anything less than X words or lines? To the bit bucket, Batman!"
I understand the point, but some of the funniest comments I've seen have been one or two words, and some of the most insightful have been under 10.
For me, the issue is the tracking that ads do (which is a special subset of security). Until ads stop tracking me, I will block every one that I can.
But there's a broader issue that I noticed when I surfed the Web without an ad blocker for the first time in many years: the Web is straight up unusable without an ad blocker in place.
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Re: Even proper Republicans don't call this capitalism.
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Re: Everyone's been kinda slow on the uptake here
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Re: This should be the end of CERT
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Which is almost as bad as not hashing them at all.
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IoT done wrong
Which is why everyone should avoid IoT things like the plague. The sad thing is that IoT could be done in a way that eliminates this problem simply by having the devices talk to a server placed in the home instead of in the cloud. But that would eliminate the entire entire reason companies are so excited about IoT: the expanded spying opportunities.
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Re: Other security issues...
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My understanding is yes, as the law stands such a requirement can be made since driving is a privilege granted by the state. Whether or not it would survive a constitutional argument in court is an unknown.
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Sounds familiar
Sounds like something ISIS would try.
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Not "pretty much", the raping is the point of the game.
What I find interesting about Custer's Revenge (beyond the fact that people still talk about an ancient, low budget, objectively terrible game) is that all of the public denouncing of the game in the day resulted in sales of the game being about double that of the other similar titles in the company's catalog. (CR sold about 80,000 copies. Their next best selling title was about 40,000).
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Re: Don't forget!
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Apple outsources all its manufacturing offshore, but it does most product development in the US. Those are real engineering jobs, not retail.
Apple is pretty much a multinational now. It's no more a Chinese company than it is a US company. It's independent of nationality. This is how most large corporations are.
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Re: Re: Re: People are obviously becoming a lot more stupid this century. Who's poisoning the water supply?!?
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"Anything less than X words or lines? To the bit bucket, Batman!"
I understand the point, but some of the funniest comments I've seen have been one or two words, and some of the most insightful have been under 10.
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But there's a broader issue that I noticed when I surfed the Web without an ad blocker for the first time in many years: the Web is straight up unusable without an ad blocker in place.
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