I actually never thought about that before, but it's a very interesting point. However, I'd argue that just because they're not supposed to check doesn't mean that they don't or won't, and thus the fact that they're not supposed to is kind of moot.

Also, you're telling me that out of all the people that have been let go for things they said on Facebook (And there are tons, just check Google), none of them came to that realization and filed a wrongful dismissal claim and won the right to their job back? These companies straight out tell people that they're being fired for something they said on Facebook. Couldn't they make the claim that because Facebook contains sensitive information that they're not supposed to ask, that they were fired based on discriminatory grounds? I've never ever heard of this happening.

Furthermore, checking your Facebook profile isn't "asking" you about your marital status, sexuality, or religion. It's up there for the public to see. I'd say it's more akin to straight up telling your employer that information, not being asked about it.

Employers here aren't really supposed to check our social media. So many legal pitfalls because they're legally not allowed to ask anyone about marital status, children, sexuality, religion or that and snooping a facebook can give them all that information and open them to discrimination proceedings.

They would be able to argue that they are racist arseholes on their own time and it doesn't affect their ability to do their jobs.

I'm sure you've worked with people who have some shocking views about something or who make you question how they haven't been fired already they're so useless. I know I have.

I cancelled my Spotify subscription when they came out with the crazy "we own your data" privacy policy. Sure, the CEO came out and said "But that's not what we meant", I'm still not clicking accept on that until they change the actual wording of the privacy policy. When I accept their terms and conditions, the CEO's blog posts aren't part of that. The privacy policy is.

Read somewhere once of people traveling with pricy photographic equipment (those lenses are expensive) that you purchase a flare gun or starter pistol and put it in your bag. The TSA requires it to be in a hard shell case with a non-TSA lock on it. They will march you over, scan it, let you lock it, and track it special to make damn sure it makes it to it's destination at the end of the flight

OK found it

Thought it was clever.

Your welcome.

P.S: Funny, I was going to ask you just that but decided against it because I will find out anyway...

Racerxonclar, appreciate your effort in bringing / introducing Dota to Snapzu

Later, Tantasma

It makes perfect sense when you consider their fundamental morality.

Seems to me they strive to replicate Victorian life as much as possible but still use electronics when necessary.

Each day I write in my diary with an antique fountain pen that I fill with liquid ink using an eyedropper. My inkwell and the blotter I use to dry the ink on each page before I turn it are antiques from the 1890s; I buy my ink from a company founded in 1670.

From what I understand of their lifestyle from the article (I haven't had the chance to read their blog), it appears they just want to live their love (which is the Victorian Era) by first principles. This would be similar to a mathematician who solves problems with pen and paper when one could easily plug the problem into software or someone who loves fashion and sows their own clothes. To people who do not share their passion, it is torture, however, they find great enjoyment and fulfillment in such endeavors. Similarly, I find that the Victorian Era couple just have an extreme passion for the Victorian era and find great fulfillment in "first-principles" living.

And here’s an argument against the book.

Do with your sympathies what you will. Since you ask, though — no, this recidivist convicted poacher deserves no sympathy.

Here’s the interview this report skims.

He claims he didn’t know he was killing a beloved lion. That’s a remorseless notpology. The line that he, his lawyer and his PR guy lay out at that interview can be summed up as “I already got away with this, and I’m kind of a big deal around here. Poor, poor me.”

You say that he thought his poaching was “fully legal.” He actually doesn’t make this claim in the interview. His lawyer says it was [technically] legal, and credits the professional poachers Palmer hired for it being successful. When you say fully legal, you’ve got to be overlooking that this trophy-hunter went to a farm to hunt lions. Do you think there may have been some thought given to the wildlife sanctuary next to that farm? This guy has been convicted before, in this country, of killing bear without a license and fishing without a license. You know, poaching. Somehow, on a ~$50K+ hunting trip to Zimbabwe, he’s just going to patter around a bucolic farm for a while? C’mon.

As for whether he’s had his and his family’s lives destroyed by what you call ‘vigilantes,’ I’d say he seems to be in pretty good shape. So some kids dressed in lion costumes protested at his office a while back. There were a couple protesters when he went back to work all business-as-usual. It’s not like his head’s mounted on a wall in a dentist’s office somewhere.

I am glad he had to fill that awful russian visa questionnaire. I need to fill one for my wife every time we want to visit the UK and it's unbelievably annoying (prove that her father is going to remain on his home country while we travel, and things like that), not to mention the attitude of the companies that handle the application to the embassies, the 'funniest' being that visa pick-up is from 2 to 4 pm, when all courier companies are closed, so you have to book their 'priority' service in advance. From September 1st there is a service fee in addition to a visa fee (we are levied of visa fee because of EU family member conditions) Or the fact that we are still waiting for a refund for a visa interview that we didn't attend (their website it's confusing on purpose so it's almost impossible to ask for a visa interview as a EEA family member) and I am tired of being forwarded to every possible department.

I am glad in the sense that more people need to know how incredible annoying and privacy invading those questionnaires can be.

This feels like saying water's wet, from my perspective. It's all about being a high-risk versus being a low-risk for banks, and if your a high-risk they're gonna make you pay through the nose for it. When you're poor and living paycheck to paycheck, yeah, you can't always be reliable with that min. deposit or fee. That's what kills you.

Although, the ATM thing gets worked around in my area by using the self check out at the local grocery store. Buy a cheap item (as little as 25 cents) and then ask for money back. Practically free (if you buy stuff you were already gonna buy anyways).

This is unfortunate, I wish we could see what was happening on the other side of that pole. Though with the increasing # of cop-related incidents going on lately these things don't seem so 'accidental' any more.

Everyday 2 more stories come out about these things happening. People should really be concerned about this- a lot of these people have been killed for sitting in their homes. Police officers in the US no longer show discipline or restraint. It's a shoot first ask questions attitude. While that works when chasing gangbangers and whatnot, it doesn't work when picking which house you're supposed to raid, or responding to a suicidal person only threatening to injure themselves. This is frightening and NOT at all what our Founding Fathers had in mind for us.

edited out hyperbole

Get them While they're young?

That attitude has served the Catholic church well though they never tried to be child friendly at the same time.

Must say it works, My kids are all about "can you ask google [_________]?" though I must admit Cortana is taking over there now, but only because she sings and tells jokes they dont understand i think.

Maybe- (and I'm probably going to catch a lot of flak for this) but I'd also think these very same people would be real sensitive about committing similar atrocities themselves. Then I'd ask a Palestinian how they feel about Israeli entitlement.

I can't say I'm on either side of that fence- but I do know right from wrong. Let me digress before I get off topic.

It's weird that so many have died in Louisiana but this an incredibly low number of deaths for what's considered such a "dangerous" position. Statistically this is an incredibly low number. There's approximately 1 million cops employed in the US and so far 16 have died on the job this year from gunfire. That's about a .0016 % death rate. Not exactly scary numbers for anyone thinking of joining law enforcement.

Meanwhile cops have killed nearly 800 people this year alone so I'm finding it hard to dredge of any kind of pity for them.

I was curious about it myself initially, but I couldn't find anything linking the two together besides having the same first name.

Raymond Hill is in Québec, Canada while this Raymond appears to be in Houston, Texas according to his contact information.

From my experience working with Steam's broadcasting platform, Twitch, and Youtube... I'm not sure if Youtube has the ability to really compete directly with Twitch. The easiest comparison was during the Dota 2 International recently. The tournament was broadcast on all three at same time.

Twitch was pretty much standard experience. It didn't crash or lag out more than the other two, nor was it stable when the others were down.

Youtube had a nice interface, it was about the same visual quality, however...it was 20-30 seconds behind, due to the HTML5 encoders. This is the primary reason Twitch hasn't made a full transition to HTML5, as they've been trying actively trying to reduce stream delay as much as possible to promote chat interaction. However, in Youtube's favor, it did handle the 60fps aspect of the broadcast swimmingly.

Steam's platform really, really impressed me. To the point, I wish I could go to Valve's headquarters and ask them what the hell they did differently. The stream delay was exactly the same as Twitch, however the video quality was noticeably better. Frame rate was as steady as Youtube's while the contrast and overall bitrate were much better. Plus the platform has the ability to rewind live without having to skip anything. Once you're done with your personal instant replay, hit the "Live" button and it instantly syncs you back up to the broadcast. Youtube claims to offer the same, but you know, no hands on experience on that one.

So... while people keep making noise that Youtube's the Twitch competitor, I really feel Steam's going to quickly take over as primary challenger. As soon as the personal broadcasting via the Steam overlay gets stable and out of beta, it's going to actually be easier to stream on than Twitch.

Going to be fun to see how all three companies start leapfrogging features :)

Haha thanks! You're better off checking out my blog every so often though. I post stuff I shoot on there first!

Woops. Wasn't aware that /r/blackberry didn't allow posts. Apologies. Yeah, perhaps /u/canuck might have some input.

With the constant headlines about IOS and Android security problems, I hope that an intelligent, sober, security-conscious Blackberry jumps into the gap and unrolls a kick-ass replacement to the Z30 which gives superb battery life, flexibility to run Android applications, as well as enterprise-class security features that people deserve.

Sure, there's devices like Blackphone, but the moment you take away Android's extreme flexibility to make it more secure, you automatically toss out all the things that make it fun to use (e.g. custom rom's). Stock Android, properly locked down, is a pretty shitty OS. BBOS10 is a tightly locked down wonder.

Here's hoping they are around for a long time to come. In whatever form they take.

As the article explains it, the outrage is that the meaning of the word migrant has changed to communicate a thing that is sub-human. So, they're arguing that we should use the terms people, families, and refugees instead.

However, as someone that grew up in Miami, the term refugee can also become derogatory. Just ask the Cubans that were called "refs" throughout the 80s and 90s.

What grinds my gears is the goddamn pseudoscience of it all. We live in an era where bullshit shouldn't exist. Throw up Wikipedia on your cell phone and you get a pretty good idea if that kale soy latte at Starbucks is actually good for you (protip: it's not).

But nooooo somehow most people find the fancy made YouTube video with flashy colors and sounds that throw out a bunch of made up crap that means nothing and totally ignores the fact that it says in a disclaimer on the bottom: "PAID FOR BY THE STARBUCKS CORPORATION. ALL FACTS ARE TOTALLY MADE UP AND EVERYTHING WE SAY IS A LIE TO GET YOU TO BUY OUR SHIT AT HUGELY MARKED UP PRICES."

ffs just ask your doctor what's healthy. It's NOT hard.

Note: A naturopath is not a fucking doctor. It's a scam artist in a lab coat.

As the company explains, the rise of broadband makes optical drives obsolete. Why include a disc reader when any game you want is just a download away?

Sounds great, except for the fact that the only reason we can still go out and legally play classics like Goldeneye 007 and WWF No Mercy is because they were available on physical media. Otherwise, they'd be entirely lost to license limbo and impossible to play.

Downloadable games are convenient, but they also have a downside. Just ask anyone who wants to play Konami's P.T.

If the CEO meant what he was saying, he'd update the privacy policy to explicitly reflect what data is being gathered and what it's being used for. I'm not giving Spotify the equivalent of a blank check because the CEO makes promises in his blog posts. When I click "Accept" on a Privacy Policy, I'm agreeing to what's in the policy, not to what the CEO said. Even if this guy is serious, what happens when a new CEO takes over who isn't as committed to privacy, and has access to all these users who have told Spotify: "Sure, any data on any of my devices that you want, go for it" ?

This is the whole idea. Weakening privacy make it easier to snoop on political activists and opositionists, so if push come to the shove, they have all the material they need to harrass, discredit of even arrest those people. Ask anyone who lived or lives under dictatorships like Egypt or pseudo/proto dictatorships like Venezuela. Claiming it's for law enforcement is only a sugar coating to sell it to the same public that'll be victimized by this. It's like claiming they're trying to "protect the children" when the real objective of Internet filtering is plain old censorship of information.