The FCC shouldn't have to define internet rules but does due to lack of competition. If there was as much competition for ISPs as there is for most products/services then companies that pull stuff like Comcast would simply go out of business.
Don't get too excited yet. "Penalty" could be a slap-on-the-wrist drop-in-the-bucket fine per infraction... something small enough that could reasonably be passed on to the customer.
The context here is for data stored on portable devices, correct (I didn't RTFA)? Presumably there's a copy of the sensitive data in physically more secure place?
So why not have a password which when given makes Truecrypt to write 0s over the hidden encrypted partition? They never knew it was there, and no amount of torturing will produce the information after this point.
Tantamount to biting your own tongue off in a torture session. The sudden HD light activity and the sound of the hard drive grinding away might earn you a few extra bruises though.
the new bill would allow consumers to make one copy of each item per device owned, such as a computer or MP3 player. What's the definition of a device? Is a CD a device? Is a hard drive a device? Is a usb key a device? After a copy has been made and exists on a device, can the device be legally in the possession of another person (on loan, indefinitely?)
This would show the politicians that bills of this kind are political suicide for whatever party introduces them It would also show the US that they need to step up their level of influence on Canada's politics.
Very little, if any, consultation with the public or non-government experts occured in the writing of this bill; It was all behind the curtains. Perhaps not an uncommon occurence in the US, but we have slightly higher expectations here in Canada.
Maybe this is a plot to help balance the budget. Instead of spending money on computers for all the federal agencies, they just seize as many as they need from all us hardened criminals. I know you're probably half joking, but I repeatedly read theorizing on/. regarding motivation behind various legislation and some sort of conspiracy against citizens.
In George Orwell's 1984 it's implied that the police state was conceived and then implemented by some devious masterminds. While it's obvious that a police state is where the US is headed, I don't think the path being taken is the same.
Governments expand to fill their container (the boundary of which is decided by the citizens), but not because there is some devious individual or collective who intends to oppress its people. It results more from ignorance and human nature than cunning. Even a government composed entirely of good-intentioned people will grab more power than it needs, if the citizens let it.
Nice idea but...
I get yelled at for humming, tapping pens, repeatedly making my chair squeak, or making any repitious noise (besides typing of course). There's no mention on the website of how quiet this thing is, so I'm not sure how receptive fellow office workers would be to it.
That's not the point. Perhaps right now their algorithm looks for things you and I would deem acceptable to enhancing national security; the problem is when (not if) they impliment an algorithm that looks for less appropriate things. Things, such as who is a believer in this or that idea.
If they don't like what you believe (for example, if you don't support them or their ways), then with the new powers bestowed upon the government/military, they can make you disappear.
In summary, just read 1984.
It's in the nature of governments to seek this kind of power, and it is the responsibility of the nation's people to make sure they don't get it.
I don't understand how anyone can be complacent knowing their email is being stored away. Even if one is sure he poses no risk to those listening, how can any government be trusted not to abuse such a power?
If we're not going to put up with petty tyrants then it really needs to be possible to have unmonitored communication. If we were discussing our distaste for the tyrant of the day, and contemplating the need to dispose of him, then that isn't information he should have for obvious reasons.
I'm a Canadian, with several American friends in the US. While I realize the chances of my conversations being recorded or monitored are slim, I will now be explaining to these friends that as a matter of principle I simply won't communicate via telephone with them any longer. I hope this will send a strong message and I hope other non-americans adopt a similar approach. One can only hope that isolation from the rest of the world, surrounding walls that grow ever higher, will make Americans feel enough like prisoners to attempt an escape.
In the words of George Carlin: "The planet is fine, the PEOPLE are f**cked"
Parental Nature will be around for a long time. If it needs to get rid of us, whether by frying us in our own byproducts, or by whatever other means, it will. Nature always wins; it's the nature of nature.
I carry a knife on my key chain (a knife that folds up into the shape of a large key and hangs off my key chain). On two occasions I have forgotten to pack it in my suitcase and carried it through airport security without being stopped.
Security is probably pretty efficient at catching things that have been tried before, but there are probably millions of methods to getting weapons on a plane that haven't yet been attempted.
There are many examples of consumer electronics that have reached maturity which people buy new models of simply due to marketing and the fact that they're newer. Vista doesn't have to do anything new for it to sell, there's an expectation that newer is improved. Just make it look nicer, and maybe use some new shiny retail packaging.
It likely won't happen but a large-scale high-publicity screw-up by Democrats in the very near future might just be what's needed for US citizens as a whole to realize the severity of their government's issues. Things have to get a lot worse before they get better.
It seems extremist to start talking about revolution but really what other exit strategy is, historically speaking, reasonable to expect?
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What did Alice lose that made her arrive late to her job? (three words)
"her x-boyfriend's virginity" ?
The FCC shouldn't have to define internet rules but does due to lack of competition. If there was as much competition for ISPs as there is for most products/services then companies that pull stuff like Comcast would simply go out of business.
Don't get too excited yet. "Penalty" could be a slap-on-the-wrist drop-in-the-bucket fine per infraction... something small enough that could reasonably be passed on to the customer.
I'm not sure about the people here, but I, for one, would rather lose a little bit of privacy than risk losing the people I care about.
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. "
- Benjamin Franklin, A Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania
The context here is for data stored on portable devices, correct (I didn't RTFA)? Presumably there's a copy of the sensitive data in physically more secure place?
So why not have a password which when given makes Truecrypt to write 0s over the hidden encrypted partition? They never knew it was there, and no amount of torturing will produce the information after this point.
Tantamount to biting your own tongue off in a torture session. The sudden HD light activity and the sound of the hard drive grinding away might earn you a few extra bruises though.
Great. So now when Viacom sues Google they'll not only get viewership information, they'll know all the relationships between those viewers too.
Very little, if any, consultation with the public or non-government experts occured in the writing of this bill; It was all behind the curtains. Perhaps not an uncommon occurence in the US, but we have slightly higher expectations here in Canada.
In George Orwell's 1984 it's implied that the police state was conceived and then implemented by some devious masterminds. While it's obvious that a police state is where the US is headed, I don't think the path being taken is the same.
Governments expand to fill their container (the boundary of which is decided by the citizens), but not because there is some devious individual or collective who intends to oppress its people. It results more from ignorance and human nature than cunning. Even a government composed entirely of good-intentioned people will grab more power than it needs, if the citizens let it.
Nice idea but... I get yelled at for humming, tapping pens, repeatedly making my chair squeak, or making any repitious noise (besides typing of course). There's no mention on the website of how quiet this thing is, so I'm not sure how receptive fellow office workers would be to it.
That's not the point. Perhaps right now their algorithm looks for things you and I would deem acceptable to enhancing national security; the problem is when (not if) they impliment an algorithm that looks for less appropriate things. Things, such as who is a believer in this or that idea. If they don't like what you believe (for example, if you don't support them or their ways), then with the new powers bestowed upon the government/military, they can make you disappear. In summary, just read 1984. It's in the nature of governments to seek this kind of power, and it is the responsibility of the nation's people to make sure they don't get it.
PirateBay will have a new torrent section called "thoughts", where one can download all the latest illegal ideas people have uploaded.
I don't understand how anyone can be complacent knowing their email is being stored away. Even if one is sure he poses no risk to those listening, how can any government be trusted not to abuse such a power?
If we're not going to put up with petty tyrants then it really needs to be possible to have unmonitored communication. If we were discussing our distaste for the tyrant of the day, and contemplating the need to dispose of him, then that isn't information he should have for obvious reasons.
I'm a Canadian, with several American friends in the US. While I realize the chances of my conversations being recorded or monitored are slim, I will now be explaining to these friends that as a matter of principle I simply won't communicate via telephone with them any longer. I hope this will send a strong message and I hope other non-americans adopt a similar approach. One can only hope that isolation from the rest of the world, surrounding walls that grow ever higher, will make Americans feel enough like prisoners to attempt an escape.
In the words of George Carlin: "The planet is fine, the PEOPLE are f**cked" Parental Nature will be around for a long time. If it needs to get rid of us, whether by frying us in our own byproducts, or by whatever other means, it will. Nature always wins; it's the nature of nature.
I agree regarding phony airport security:
I carry a knife on my key chain (a knife that folds up into the shape of a large key and hangs off my key chain). On two occasions I have forgotten to pack it in my suitcase and carried it through airport security without being stopped.
Security is probably pretty efficient at catching things that have been tried before, but there are probably millions of methods to getting weapons on a plane that haven't yet been attempted.
There are many examples of consumer electronics that have reached maturity which people buy new models of simply due to marketing and the fact that they're newer. Vista doesn't have to do anything new for it to sell, there's an expectation that newer is improved. Just make it look nicer, and maybe use some new shiny retail packaging.
It likely won't happen but a large-scale high-publicity screw-up by Democrats in the very near future might just be what's needed for US citizens as a whole to realize the severity of their government's issues. Things have to get a lot worse before they get better. It seems extremist to start talking about revolution but really what other exit strategy is, historically speaking, reasonable to expect?