Posts by Mark 85 12882 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Nov 2012
Once upon a time, that was the way to create a new identity. You'd dig into some newspapers looking for an obit for a child that died shortly after birth. Take the name, the parents names, and few other tidbits and go to the local office for Vital Statistics (at least here in the States) and apply for a copy of the birth certificate. Once you had that, you were gold.
in California you need an arts degree.
Please tell me this is a joke. Why shouldn't someone with a degree in, say, biochemistry be considered capable of handling a body?
I'm actually not surprised. It is California where much is about appearances. I would have thought though that minor in cosmetology would be needed.. Having a great looking corpse, you know.
You forgot "computer science" from your list...
Uh.. no.. Comp Sci people have much in common with the rest of the mystic types. Normal people have no clue what they/we do yet they believe and trust in us. We work in the dark, eat strange foods, and mumble a language unto it self. Yep.. we're not scientists but mystics.
The problem that many of us "skeptics" (not deniers) have is not that the climate is changing but the reason WHY it is changing and the gospel of what must be done. To say it's CO2 and not embrace nuke power is folly. To say that big star in the sky has no effect is questionable... It's output does change and that is always discounted.
Yes, the seas are rising. The overall temperature is rising. But why? There's as many answers as there are factions in the "warmist" camp and each sub-group likes to believe it/s answer is the only one.
Might even be a better idea not to use a mobile device for banking or anything sensitive. Steal one of the affected phones in the article and you own the poor guy's/gal's bank account and just about everything else. Anymore, don't even need to physically steal the phone.
Just a thought but it works for me. Hell, steal my phone you have bumpkiss for personal data.
Student discounts, etc. do another thing which is often overlooked. It's marketing ploy. Hook them as a student and you probably will have a customer for life. Back in the early days, Apple sold their computers at very low prices to school systems. Ok.. it was a good thing for education but many of the kids loved the Apple. They still do. The downside was that when they were no longer students and went to buy an Apple for themselves, the price was too high.
Question: Why is the world of humans in general desperately bent on playing out the '1984' scenario?
The citizens/voters are the problem. They expect government to take care of them by providing more and more services, by stopping crime and terrorism, and not raising taxes. They expect, nay demand, cradle to grave everything because they are "special" and "deserve it". As long as the citizens/voters get their bread and circuses, they don't care what government does to them.
Just because someone chose to commit suicide at work doesn't mean work was the *cause* of the suicide.
Actually, it probably is "work" since as I recall from other stories, most of them live in dorms on the grounds of the factories in true company style facilities. Foxconn hires a lot of people from outside the area. Not sure if it's the locals don't want the work or the stress but many workers come from farming areas that are beyond a daily commute distance. Add to that crowding in the housing, draconian (by the west's standards) rules and no chance to go party at the end of the week. Yeah... it's "work" related.
Or they could go the other way and show full or reasonably full tanks which would never get refilled. This would create panics as stations ran out of full but no refills coming in. Coordinate the attacks on say a highway system and no fuel and cars/trucks stop running. Could be a massive disruption.
looks like a duck and walks like a duck...it's duck. If it makes lots of threats and files lots of lawsuits over alleged copyright infringement, it's a copyright troll.
Here all along, I thought porn was a big moneymaker.. I guess it's lawsuits and/or threats that build the bottom line.
You've been popping this post repeatedly. Have you considered contacting a lawyer? I'm sure there's at least one (thousand or more) who'd take the case, turn it into a class action and make themselves a pile of money. Might even get things to change. Take some action instead of beating up the comments section.
Personally, I'd rather add "smart" capabilities to a "dumb" TV via a plug-in device which can be replaced when it (the device, not the telly) becomes obsolete, but that's just me...
There's the problem.. you and most of us want things that just work. Manufacturers want profit.. lots of it. Between killing API's, lack of updates, and planned obsolescence, they win and we lose.
As for the handbrake, that's a fail-safe also in the sense that it can NOT be applied at speed. If it could, locking up the wheels (either front or rear but not both is normal) the car would suddenly be sliding out of control. At least this way, the kinetic energy of the car in motion (speed) bleeds off before the handbrake can be safely applied.
I found this out the hard way about 20 years when the brake system (old, used car) had a brake failure. Grabbing the handbrake locked the rear wheels and put the car in a slide and then a spin.
Has the 'civilized' society completely given up its demands for privacy and not being datamined for no benefit to it?
Short answer.. yes. Just look to the comments sections on any article about privacy, be it companies or agencies. There's a hard core of "this is neat that I get this but I don't have anything to hide" for companies like Google to "we need to stop terrorism and paedophiles". And the list and acceptances of this go on. The IoT with all of its intrusiveness is seen by many as a "good thing".
Let's face it, we've been sucked in. It's only a matter of time before we get chewed up and spat out once our usefulness the data hoarders is used up.
The hardware is really only a part of the problem. The problem is people. They click through warnings, they download stuff they know is questionable. They then turn around and blame hardware, government, companies for their lack of security and not watching out for them.
I've read these articles and others like it. It boils down to the person running the device, be it cellphone, PC, etc. Yes, there's stuff the equipment, apps, programs, firewalls, etc. can protect against and stop. But it seems the biggest reason equipment gets compromised is users not caring or paying attention to what's going on in front of them.
This not only allowed the Hacking Team to prosper, it was also their downfall.
All other topics such as religion and race seems to be a "gloves off" contest and people compete to be as obnoxious to those they are ridiculing as they can.
Err.... no. There's lots and lots of the PC crowd making stuff off limits. You can make fun of Middle-Easterners but not Muslims. You can only use the "N" word in a joke if you're black. The list goes on...
Indeed, he does sound like he's a few sandwiches short of a picnic. OTOH, I don't know how "popular" he is over there, but this might be an opportunity to go long on shares of the company that makes the device. Then sell for a profit before some guardian agency degrees them as being worthless and a scam.
Crap.. I'm sounding like a greedy capitalist... Oh wait.. I am a greedy capitalist looking to pad by retirement account.
While you are correct, there is a matter of following the Constitution. The court order work-around was just that... an end run around the 4th Amendment. If the Supremes rule a court order is good, then all is well, right? Or is this part of the slippery slope where we find ways around the Constitution?
As for not at risk of metadata being collected, then the NSA is all smoke and mirrors on it's collection? Again.. 4th Amendment issue if that data does ever get used. Does this collection make it all "ok" since it's not being used? What if the next administration starts using this info to suppress dissent? Or using other ways that are the stuff of nightmares?
The biggest issue with all this is the need for and currently the lack of legal challenges. The Supremes are the only ones with the power to say that what's happening on web and with cellphones, et al, is within the Constitution. If it is... fine. If not, then it has to be illegal to do so until the Constitution is changed.
Whilst I see the need to be able to convict criminals, especially serial crims, I believe this will go a long way to protecting the overall population from abuse. Yes, it's procedural in it's warrant vs. court order but a necessary one under the Constitution. We don't need a police force pulling someone over for a speeding violation who's locations for the last 6 months end up on a police database because the cops can. Probable cause is a very important part of the 4th Amendment and it should be enforced via warrant, not some judge getting a call and saying "sure... you can have the data".
Maybe, with luck, this could spread to other areas of data gathering in the States... probably won't ... but one can hope.
<rolls eyes> <puts head down on desk> <sighs loudly> Un-freaking-believable.... maybe we should just do away with passwords, encryption, etc. and give the agencies and the bad guys everything.... they seem have it already or will have it. While this is not on the same level as a SONY or OPM or Anthem hijack... it's endemic of the web and the world we live in.
I know, it's not a matter of "if" you get nailed but "when". Still, it's pretty damning that they got hit again.
...is the carrier. Will they move these out to the devices? Or claim they don't have the bandwidth? Will they use these as part of the data limit cap? Or give the update a free ride? I suspect that there probably won't be as many devices updated as speculated due to carrier interference.
Have a libation before lying down. You realize of course that this is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, right? Only the negotiators and their handlers know what else is in there. Good grief, I'm American and this is pissing me off royally.
All the warm, fuzzies by politicians and corporate types is actually (and always has been) just so much bovine excrement behind the barn. We've come of the age, finally, of "trust no one".
"Say it" is one thing. "Posting it" seems to be what this is about. And we think we have intrusiveness... the only difference is, the Chinese are probably used to this by now as they've had local snitches (for lack of a better word) for decades. This just escalates it.
The rest of us are just learning about our government's intentions. Perhaps we need to take a closer look at China and even Russia to get some idea where things are headed.
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