Yes, I can see how marijuana use is much more severe than compromising the personally identifying information of a million citizens. Thank you for pointing that out, Mr. AC.
Thank you very much for your assurance that my park bench is secure.
Since you are one of the Senators representing the State of California in the US Senate, could you please investigate why it is that an intern who compromised the personal information of nearly one million citizens will be allowed back into the workforce while an experienced scientific researcher who has never compromised anyone else's personal information must sleep on a park bench?
Don't thank me for my time, Mrs. Feinstein. It is my duty and honor to point out the obvious to the nation.
this intern's on his way to being fired and then given our nation's highest honor and medal for taking the fall for someone else. He'd better not try to take my park bench. Let him find his own. I already have three of those medals.
The recorder came equipped with DRM/TC/Palladium and a boot-block monitor which only allowed MS signatures. The tech wanted to install Linux. Clipping the wires was the only way to bypass the DRM and put LILO on the HD.
As the technology becomes available for further control and surveillance, did you honestly expect it would go unused? You must be new here. Either agree with me or try trolling me to death... but please don't steal my line as if you just now thought of it.
just in case your browser crashes or something of that nature Twenty years ago, when I first began using a word processor which offered this new "auto-save" feature, I turned it off, and I've been turning it off whenever possible since. Sure, it _seemed_ like a good idea, but something in the back of my head said three things,"If this crashes while I'm typing there's a larger problem that needs to be fixed, if I forget to save important work at regular intervals that's my own fault, and there's something suspicious about this 'auto-save' feature that I don't like."
I feel the same way about ad-block. Sounds like a good idea, doesn't it? I don't trust it.
If they have the ability to know this much about the individual packets why don't they start charging individuals for improved network performance? The average workingman is paid 5 sp/day. The priveleged workingman is paid 7 sp/day. The favored workingman is paid 10 sp/day.
The cost of a coal shovel is 100 sp. The cost of a coal shovel +1 is 110 sp. The cost of a coal shovel +2 is 120 sp.
A coal shovel breaks after 19 days. A coal shovel +1 breaks after 15 days. A coal shovel +2 breaks after 13 days.
The favored workingman offers loans to the priveleged workingman in amounts of 20 sp per loan, with an interest rate which causes the total repayment to be 30 sp.
In this system the favored workingman can always afford a new shovel when it breaks and has the money to make loans to the priveleged workingman. The priveleged workingman can afford a new shovel whenever it breaks but is kept in debt by loaning money to the general workingman whose coal shovel always breaks one day before he can afford to replace it. In this fashion the general workingman is kept in a state of alarm, always needing 5 more sp, the priveleged workingman is kept on a hamster wheel, always needing to find four more general workingmen to loan money to, and the favored workingman never has a problem.
do not do or say anything over the internet that you would not want being completely public, Aside from the telephone system, though, we're now entering the very first time in history when the distinction between private, public, and performance (actively monitored by everyone within a 50 mile radius) has been so thoroughly blurred.
Nature, life in general, humans in particular, have always functioned in environments where the difference between the three (private, public, and performance) has always been somewhat controllable. At no other time in history has the population been deliberately led into systems, thinking they're private or limited public, only to find out the the realm is closer to performance.
I guess we, both as individual members of a species and collective members of a society, will adapt but it sure seems like there would be a better way to do things.
It's a snowballing system. The new tech companies want to come up with new technology. The government wants to make use of new technology. The new tech companies want to come up with new technology to appease the government regulations which make use of the new (-1) technology. The government wants to make use of the new technology. The new tech companies want to come up with new technology to appease the government regulations which make use of the new (-1) and new (-2) technology. Repeat.
I, as a private system admin, would simplify the entire problem and choose not to engage in packet inspection unless there were absolutely blatant abuses--like setting a threshold. There are ethical reasons why I wouldn't feel that it's proper to go delving through each and every packet. Once government becomes involved, though, then there's no way to turn it off. In order to receive the money for an ISP start-up, for example, one must demonstrate that they can play within the ever shrinking boundaries defined by the laws.
The article (and summary) mentions reassembling e-mails as their being typed. Is this accurate? I have, for some time, wondered if some text entry forms in web pages are "active" in that they exchange keystrokes with the remote end at real-time intervals. Again, from an ethical point of view, I would never make use of anything but passive entry boxes where none of the user's text is transferred across the network until they actually deliberately send it. What possible reason, as an admin, could I have in wanting to watch a user as they type text into an entry form?
I guess the argument can be made for automatically modifying forms. Pfizer uses this for their online resume submission. For example, the available options in the various locations (country, state, county, city, zip, etc.) are pared down as soon as one makes a selection in the heirarchical predecessor. While I appreciate the "wow! neat!" factor I just don't see how it's really necessary and, although I don't see that Pfizer would be using it for some uber-nefarious conspiracy scheme, I can liken it to the desensitization similar to "Click OK if you wish to allow this action" and EULAs.
according to your own journal history you've been both homeless and In LaJolla since mid November of '06 Way to go off the deep end on a typo, Mr. AC.
I left Battelle, walked out the door for the last time, around Dec 2, 2005. They spent three weeks with their thumb up their butt. Somewhere just before Christmas they called me on the telephone to let me know that I had been "unwillingly terminated on Dec 13." When I reminded them that I had notified them of the issues leading to my resignation, and that I had alerted them two weeks before resigning that it was imminent, the HR buffoon pressed with,"None of that makes any difference. You were unwillingly terminated on Dec. 13th."
It's more closely tied to your second point but even that's just PR spin and campaign hype.
The majority of the push for this sort of thing is money. The allocations of taxpayer money to devote to these pet filtering and monitoring projects will be huge. One particular military subcontractor, Battelle, was already building an _ENORMOUS_ datacenter in Aberdeen, MD, when I left in '07. Why were they building? Most people working at the (existing) tiny site new that it would be mostly devoted to computer science technology but few people knew exactly what. The inside word was that there were going to be enormous contracts coming down the line for processing, indexing, storing, retrieving, and minin gargantuan amounts of data.
Politicians and top-level businessmen work together for years to figure out how to grant themselves a huge chunk of the taxpayer pie. When the news releases start making it to the headlines it's not a matter for debate anymore--it's after the fact justification. The insider trading knowledge that these folks have, by being able to both write the laws and determine the size of the checks and decide to whom the checks are written, is a golden gift from God for the gravy train.
Or maybe I'll continue to avoid ad-laden pages. Depending upon how the views are counted, even using ad-blockers, you may still be lending an artificial legitimacy to the ad spamming industry.
Unless you're looking at plain text, FAQs, HOWTOs, or technical documentation the majority of the commercialized internet has become marginally useless. I have also noticed the increasing screen-space devoted to, and layouts made specifically for, advertising space. How many flash-blink-maximize-minimize-zoom-java-flash ads does it take to slow a modern processor to a crawl? At 500 MHz I find myself closing most pages before I even read them.
"There are so many ads on this page I can't even scroll without it pausing to re-render. *click* Screw that."
Off the top of my head: Clinton, Nixon, Carter, Lincoln, Reagan. None of whom were poor by the time they had been elected. All of them were poster children fronted by already existing political, financial, and business tycoons. Even a casino has to let someone win once in a while; but that doesn't mean that the owners of the casino have sold the place and gone home.
Congratulations on being the billionth person to base their entire view of reality on perceptions no deeper than the surface. You win the Award for Stellar Mediocrity in Analytical and Investigative Skill.
I see inescapable debt as tyranny. Many slaves had options to purchase their freedom but could never escape the debt since their rate of pay was conveniently controlled by the people holding the debt.
Taxes are a route to perpetuate inescapable debt within the non-priveleged segment of the population; for example, those people who don't get to play a round of golf with their Senator every week and discuss the upcoming round of treasury disbursements.
I agree with the ideas which you have written in your post.
I am responding simply to note that, had I posted a similar comment, I would have been deluged with AC posts filled with rants of "conspiracy theory", demanding evidence, and with no shortage of personal attacks against me. There is a dedicated group of internet trolls who target me, specifically, to the exclusion of all other users who express the same or similar ideas.
Now, personally I don't believe that quality government exists. Here, there, or anywhere. I also generally believe that most existing Governments in the world are indeed elected monarchies... with the rest being hereditary monarchies, dictatorships and fiefdoms of various sorts. I agree with the sentiment which you have expressed.
I am making note of your post mostly as a way to illustrate that, had I posted similar material, I would have been deluged with trolls ranting "conspiracy theory", demanding evidence, demanding links, and making any number of personal attacks on me throughout the course of their vitriol filled diatribe.
That they have not yet responded to you illustrates that they have targetted me, deliberately and repeatedly, over the last six months to the exclusion of other users on this system expressing the same or similar points of view. This is direct evidence of harassment and stalking across an electronic medium.
I am responding only to note that your comment has not been followed up by ACs posting vitriol filled rants in response to your comment. Had I posted the same, or a similar, comment I would be hounded endlessly with rants decrying "conspiracy theory" and deluging me with personal insults.
There is a group of dedicated internet harassers on Slashdot and they choose to follow me to the exclusion of all other users.
I am responding to your post only to note that, had I posted a similar comment, I would have by now at least 2 AC posts with diatribes full of venom laden rants and demands for evidence and justification as well as personal insults.
This is to add evidence to the existing pile that there is a group of dedicated internet harassers who target me, specifically, to the exclusion of other members on this website who express similar opinions.
I am responding to your post only to demonstrate that there is a cabal of dedicated harassers who will target me, to the exclusion of every other user, for expressing the very same thoughts.
Had I posted what you posted there would be at least 2 AC posts following mine launhing diatribes of ridicule.
People elect leaders who then direct the government through their appointed agents. This is reality, not Social Studies class. People do not elect leaders. Rich kids run for office: people elect the ones with lies which promise the most. Once in office they're not leaders--they're leeches on the taxpayer payroll.
So while I don't trust politicians either, at least I can hold them to the Constitution or vote them out of office. I have no such power over scientists. I think the last 20 years have shown rather thoroughly that, no matter what the politicians do, you still don't have any power over them.
You don't get to vote the dog out of office... the ringmaster allows the pony to win this time.
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Yes, I can see how marijuana use is much more severe than compromising the personally identifying information of a million citizens. Thank you for pointing that out, Mr. AC.
Thank you very much for your assurance that my park bench is secure.
Since you are one of the Senators representing the State of California in the US Senate, could you please investigate why it is that an intern who compromised the personal information of nearly one million citizens will be allowed back into the workforce while an experienced scientific researcher who has never compromised anyone else's personal information must sleep on a park bench?
Don't thank me for my time, Mrs. Feinstein. It is my duty and honor to point out the obvious to the nation.
Sincerely,
Steven B.
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The recorder came equipped with DRM/TC/Palladium and a boot-block monitor which only allowed MS signatures. The tech wanted to install Linux. Clipping the wires was the only way to bypass the DRM and put LILO on the HD.
I feel the same way about ad-block. Sounds like a good idea, doesn't it? I don't trust it.
The priveleged workingman is paid 7 sp/day.
The favored workingman is paid 10 sp/day.
The cost of a coal shovel is 100 sp.
The cost of a coal shovel +1 is 110 sp.
The cost of a coal shovel +2 is 120 sp.
A coal shovel breaks after 19 days.
A coal shovel +1 breaks after 15 days.
A coal shovel +2 breaks after 13 days.
The favored workingman offers loans to the priveleged workingman in amounts of 20 sp per loan, with an interest rate which causes the total repayment to be 30 sp.
In this system the favored workingman can always afford a new shovel when it breaks and has the money to make loans to the priveleged workingman. The priveleged workingman can afford a new shovel whenever it breaks but is kept in debt by loaning money to the general workingman whose coal shovel always breaks one day before he can afford to replace it. In this fashion the general workingman is kept in a state of alarm, always needing 5 more sp, the priveleged workingman is kept on a hamster wheel, always needing to find four more general workingmen to loan money to, and the favored workingman never has a problem.
Nature, life in general, humans in particular, have always functioned in environments where the difference between the three (private, public, and performance) has always been somewhat controllable. At no other time in history has the population been deliberately led into systems, thinking they're private or limited public, only to find out the the realm is closer to performance.
I guess we, both as individual members of a species and collective members of a society, will adapt but it sure seems like there would be a better way to do things.
It's a snowballing system. The new tech companies want to come up with new technology. The government wants to make use of new technology. The new tech companies want to come up with new technology to appease the government regulations which make use of the new (-1) technology. The government wants to make use of the new technology. The new tech companies want to come up with new technology to appease the government regulations which make use of the new (-1) and new (-2) technology. Repeat.
I, as a private system admin, would simplify the entire problem and choose not to engage in packet inspection unless there were absolutely blatant abuses--like setting a threshold. There are ethical reasons why I wouldn't feel that it's proper to go delving through each and every packet. Once government becomes involved, though, then there's no way to turn it off. In order to receive the money for an ISP start-up, for example, one must demonstrate that they can play within the ever shrinking boundaries defined by the laws.
The article (and summary) mentions reassembling e-mails as their being typed. Is this accurate? I have, for some time, wondered if some text entry forms in web pages are "active" in that they exchange keystrokes with the remote end at real-time intervals. Again, from an ethical point of view, I would never make use of anything but passive entry boxes where none of the user's text is transferred across the network until they actually deliberately send it. What possible reason, as an admin, could I have in wanting to watch a user as they type text into an entry form?
I guess the argument can be made for automatically modifying forms. Pfizer uses this for their online resume submission. For example, the available options in the various locations (country, state, county, city, zip, etc.) are pared down as soon as one makes a selection in the heirarchical predecessor. While I appreciate the "wow! neat!" factor I just don't see how it's really necessary and, although I don't see that Pfizer would be using it for some uber-nefarious conspiracy scheme, I can liken it to the desensitization similar to "Click OK if you wish to allow this action" and EULAs.
I left Battelle, walked out the door for the last time, around Dec 2, 2005. They spent three weeks with their thumb up their butt. Somewhere just before Christmas they called me on the telephone to let me know that I had been "unwillingly terminated on Dec 13." When I reminded them that I had notified them of the issues leading to my resignation, and that I had alerted them two weeks before resigning that it was imminent, the HR buffoon pressed with,"None of that makes any difference. You were unwillingly terminated on Dec. 13th."
It's more closely tied to your second point but even that's just PR spin and campaign hype.
The majority of the push for this sort of thing is money. The allocations of taxpayer money to devote to these pet filtering and monitoring projects will be huge. One particular military subcontractor, Battelle, was already building an _ENORMOUS_ datacenter in Aberdeen, MD, when I left in '07. Why were they building? Most people working at the (existing) tiny site new that it would be mostly devoted to computer science technology but few people knew exactly what. The inside word was that there were going to be enormous contracts coming down the line for processing, indexing, storing, retrieving, and minin gargantuan amounts of data.
Politicians and top-level businessmen work together for years to figure out how to grant themselves a huge chunk of the taxpayer pie. When the news releases start making it to the headlines it's not a matter for debate anymore--it's after the fact justification. The insider trading knowledge that these folks have, by being able to both write the laws and determine the size of the checks and decide to whom the checks are written, is a golden gift from God for the gravy train.
Or maybe I'll continue to avoid ad-laden pages. Depending upon how the views are counted, even using ad-blockers, you may still be lending an artificial legitimacy to the ad spamming industry.
Unless you're looking at plain text, FAQs, HOWTOs, or technical documentation the majority of the commercialized internet has become marginally useless. I have also noticed the increasing screen-space devoted to, and layouts made specifically for, advertising space. How many flash-blink-maximize-minimize-zoom-java-flash ads does it take to slow a modern processor to a crawl? At 500 MHz I find myself closing most pages before I even read them.
"There are so many ads on this page I can't even scroll without it pausing to re-render. *click* Screw that."
Congratulations on being the billionth person to base their entire view of reality on perceptions no deeper than the surface. You win the Award for Stellar Mediocrity in Analytical and Investigative Skill.
I see inescapable debt as tyranny. Many slaves had options to purchase their freedom but could never escape the debt since their rate of pay was conveniently controlled by the people holding the debt.
Taxes are a route to perpetuate inescapable debt within the non-priveleged segment of the population; for example, those people who don't get to play a round of golf with their Senator every week and discuss the upcoming round of treasury disbursements.
I second that. Occam was an apologist.
I agree with the ideas which you have written in your post.
I am responding simply to note that, had I posted a similar comment, I would have been deluged with AC posts filled with rants of "conspiracy theory", demanding evidence, and with no shortage of personal attacks against me. There is a dedicated group of internet trolls who target me, specifically, to the exclusion of all other users who express the same or similar ideas.
You mean you finally decided not to post AC?
I am making note of your post mostly as a way to illustrate that, had I posted similar material, I would have been deluged with trolls ranting "conspiracy theory", demanding evidence, demanding links, and making any number of personal attacks on me throughout the course of their vitriol filled diatribe.
That they have not yet responded to you illustrates that they have targetted me, deliberately and repeatedly, over the last six months to the exclusion of other users on this system expressing the same or similar points of view. This is direct evidence of harassment and stalking across an electronic medium.
I agree with your expressed sentiment.
I am responding only to note that your comment has not been followed up by ACs posting vitriol filled rants in response to your comment. Had I posted the same, or a similar, comment I would be hounded endlessly with rants decrying "conspiracy theory" and deluging me with personal insults.
There is a group of dedicated internet harassers on Slashdot and they choose to follow me to the exclusion of all other users.
I agree with you.
I am responding to your post only to note that, had I posted a similar comment, I would have by now at least 2 AC posts with diatribes full of venom laden rants and demands for evidence and justification as well as personal insults.
This is to add evidence to the existing pile that there is a group of dedicated internet harassers who target me, specifically, to the exclusion of other members on this website who express similar opinions.
I agree with you.
I am responding to your post only to demonstrate that there is a cabal of dedicated harassers who will target me, to the exclusion of every other user, for expressing the very same thoughts.
Had I posted what you posted there would be at least 2 AC posts following mine launhing diatribes of ridicule.
I'm going to tag this post to note that the cabal of ACs that usually rant and rave at me didn't manage to find you.
This is to support the theory that they are, indeed, a cabal of targetted harassers who pursue me to the exclusion of any other targets.
You don't get to vote the dog out of office... the ringmaster allows the pony to win this time.