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And unlike the government, a shopping mall can't jail you.
No, but the government can "request" that data and jail you.
One example - already a couple decades ago - was a home owner whose garage burned down. The police "requested" his visa purchase records, found that he had purchased some kind of BBQ fire starter material, and arrested him.
He was eventually cleared. He had a BBQ in the garage, so why wouldn't he have something to start it.
The problem is confirmation bias. People select that data that matches their suspicions and disregard the context. "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." These databases are supplying six thousand lines on each person.
Re: CCTV cameras aren't designed to prevent violence
I would agree with that assuming 1980s technology.
But now we're adding face recognition and license plate readers. People have demonstrated the ability to use cameras to read the fingerprints of people walking past.
With all that going permanently into searchable databases. Much of the collection and storage now done by private information brokers.
What it means is that if you're a suspect - or a political opponent - or a consumer or corporate opponent - you can be trailed retroactively. A dossier of all your travels can be generated in an instant and added to all the other data sources.
This incident also doesn't do much for the NRA's claim that "the best answer to a bad guy with a gun is a crowd of good guys with guns."
If everyone in that country music audience had had a machine-gun too, they could have taken aim at that window - 32 stories up and a block or so away - and lit up the entire hotel. But I doubt that would have made the outcome any better.
Like Smart TVs, they connect through your local network to the internet. And that opens the possibility that like with some unsecure Smart TVs and other IoT devices, hackers could use them to access the *other* devices on your local network.
Well. Unless you use the device on the Wi-Fi at Starbucks or McDonalds.
He subsequently found it's relatively trivial to discover and hijack everything from vibrators to smart butt plugs...
Which means that the NSA has been doing it for years.
...and if the user walks out of range of their smartphone or the phone battery dies, the adult toy will become available for others to connect to without any authentication.
"A communications disruption can only mean one thing... Invasion."
I can give many historical examples of Microsoft's hostility toward Linux and open source.
As competition, sure. That's normal in ANY business.
Now that users are demanding cross-platform compatibility - for Dot NET apps running on Linux or Linux apps running in Windows and plenty more examples - Microsoft is embracing Linux. No doubt it'll favor it's own products, just like any business would.
You still haven't given an example of a Linux standard that Microsoft has embraced and then tried to extinguish. And we're talking about a company that regularly, enthusiastically, pulls the rug out from under programmers by extinguishing it's own standards.
Look. I was in the computer industry when IBM was the big evil and Microsoft was the underdog.
I had an Apple II when Apple had open hardware and standards, and then I watched them move to closed hardware and proprietary standards. Even worse, changing to different proprietary standards on all their IO ports with every new model. (Not just proprietary SCSI and video ports, but the REALLY common stuff. My brand-new PC has the same microphone and headphone ports as the Apple II, and tape recorders a decade before that. I knew a guy who had three Macs, and needed three different microphones.)
I was in the computer industry when Google was the "Don't Be Evil" underdog, and that's firmly in the past.
Microsoft has behaved like Netscape, Sun, Adobe, Macromedia, IBM and the other players. No more, no less. And frankly, right now I trust them more than Google.
Yes; the article describes exactly what I wrote. The phrase was the vice president of Intel's creation for his criticism of Microsoft. His description of what he thought Microsoft's intentions were.
Not that I disagree with him. Again, the same could be said with equal accuracy for Netscape, Sun, Adobe, Macromedia, IBM and the other players.
To clarify: Got an example of Microsoft trying to extinguish a Linux standard after first embracing it as opposed to someone merely claiming that this is what Microsoft wants to do?
Her government would also find it much easier to balance the budget, if only those mathematicians weren't so patronizing in their responses to requests to change the rules of mathematics.
Oh, spare us. That phrase was the vice president of Intel's creation for his criticism of Microsoft.
And frankly it applies equally to what Netscape, Sun, Adobe, Macromedia, IBM and the other players were all doing at the time with proprietary elements in Navigator, Flash, PDF, Java, Notes etc. "Our product shall be the industry standard, and we shall control it."
And got an example of Microsoft trying to extinguish a Linux standard after first embracing it?
To be clear: "Six strikes" means grandma waking up to six accusations in her inbox all in one night. Which she won't see because her internet has been cut off.
To jailers, this move just makes sense. It all but eliminates contraband smuggling...
Wouldn't having the prisoners and visitors speak through a window with a small grill do the same thing?
You could still charge $13 every few minutes to cover the operating costs of that small grill and to research the next generation of wire mesh grill technology.
Gamer: Look. Read up on High Frequency Trading. Stock market traders shaving milliseconds, even microseconds off their automated transaction times can use that to make $millions. They're using more efficient code, higher speed links between stock exchanges and other techniques.
Gamer: By New Years the different cracking groups will be using these techniques just to be the first to announce the latest Denuvo crack.
I'm not sure that the legal profession has a principle like "First, do no harm." Much of what they do is dedicated to doing harm.
If at some point they advise the client of the risks of a course of action, they probably see no ethical problem in following the client's wishes. Just so long as it's done within the law and by the rules. I doubt that Charles Harder thinks he's violated any professional responsibility.
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And once the concert opened fire on the hotel, presumably the other hotel guests would have returned fire. As "a polite society" does.
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Re: Re: Re: CCTV cameras aren't designed to prevent violence
No, but the government can "request" that data and jail you.
One example - already a couple decades ago - was a home owner whose garage burned down. The police "requested" his visa purchase records, found that he had purchased some kind of BBQ fire starter material, and arrested him.
He was eventually cleared. He had a BBQ in the garage, so why wouldn't he have something to start it.
The problem is confirmation bias. People select that data that matches their suspicions and disregard the context. "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." These databases are supplying six thousand lines on each person.
On the post: The Vegas Shooting Makes It Clear More Surveillance Isn't The Answer
Re: CCTV cameras aren't designed to prevent violence
But now we're adding face recognition and license plate readers. People have demonstrated the ability to use cameras to read the fingerprints of people walking past.
With all that going permanently into searchable databases. Much of the collection and storage now done by private information brokers.
What it means is that if you're a suspect - or a political opponent - or a consumer or corporate opponent - you can be trailed retroactively. A dossier of all your travels can be generated in an instant and added to all the other data sources.
On the post: The Vegas Shooting Makes It Clear More Surveillance Isn't The Answer
If everyone in that country music audience had had a machine-gun too, they could have taken aim at that window - 32 stories up and a block or so away - and lit up the entire hotel. But I doubt that would have made the outcome any better.
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Well. Unless you use the device on the Wi-Fi at Starbucks or McDonalds.
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I'm trying to recall whether AT&T's You Will commercials mentioned internet-connected butt plugs.
Because that sounds more like a Comcast sort of thing.
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Which means that the NSA has been doing it for years.
"A communications disruption can only mean one thing... Invasion."
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As competition, sure. That's normal in ANY business.
Now that users are demanding cross-platform compatibility - for Dot NET apps running on Linux or Linux apps running in Windows and plenty more examples - Microsoft is embracing Linux. No doubt it'll favor it's own products, just like any business would.
You still haven't given an example of a Linux standard that Microsoft has embraced and then tried to extinguish. And we're talking about a company that regularly, enthusiastically, pulls the rug out from under programmers by extinguishing it's own standards.
Look. I was in the computer industry when IBM was the big evil and Microsoft was the underdog.
I had an Apple II when Apple had open hardware and standards, and then I watched them move to closed hardware and proprietary standards. Even worse, changing to different proprietary standards on all their IO ports with every new model. (Not just proprietary SCSI and video ports, but the REALLY common stuff. My brand-new PC has the same microphone and headphone ports as the Apple II, and tape recorders a decade before that. I knew a guy who had three Macs, and needed three different microphones.)
I was in the computer industry when Google was the "Don't Be Evil" underdog, and that's firmly in the past.
Microsoft has behaved like Netscape, Sun, Adobe, Macromedia, IBM and the other players. No more, no less. And frankly, right now I trust them more than Google.
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Not that I disagree with him. Again, the same could be said with equal accuracy for Netscape, Sun, Adobe, Macromedia, IBM and the other players.
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To clarify: Got an example of Microsoft trying to extinguish a Linux standard after first embracing it as opposed to someone merely claiming that this is what Microsoft wants to do?
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Re: Re: Re: Broadband Loves Consumers
And frankly it applies equally to what Netscape, Sun, Adobe, Macromedia, IBM and the other players were all doing at the time with proprietary elements in Navigator, Flash, PDF, Java, Notes etc. "Our product shall be the industry standard, and we shall control it."
And got an example of Microsoft trying to extinguish a Linux standard after first embracing it?
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On the post: More Prisons Banning In-Person Visits, Adding To Securus Tech's Pile Of Cash
Wouldn't having the prisoners and visitors speak through a window with a small grill do the same thing?
You could still charge $13 every few minutes to cover the operating costs of that small grill and to research the next generation of wire mesh grill technology.
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I still listen to FM radio on my new iPhone, but it streams from my Wi-Fi connected Uniden scanner.
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Reporter: Dare I ask?
Gamer: Zero. As in "0-day."
Gamer: Look. Read up on High Frequency Trading. Stock market traders shaving milliseconds, even microseconds off their automated transaction times can use that to make $millions. They're using more efficient code, higher speed links between stock exchanges and other techniques.
Gamer: By New Years the different cracking groups will be using these techniques just to be the first to announce the latest Denuvo crack.
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Still...
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According to a PolitiFact fact-check just today: In eight states there are more opioid prescriptions than there are residents in those states.
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If at some point they advise the client of the risks of a course of action, they probably see no ethical problem in following the client's wishes. Just so long as it's done within the law and by the rules. I doubt that Charles Harder thinks he's violated any professional responsibility.
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