Well it is incredulous because they violate their own rules. They say that every portal must be challenged with the use of a CAC card and a user id/password and I'm happily typing away on my DoD computer, and my CAC card is in my car. Obviously, not EVERY portal requires the CAC card, so they are failing in their own security measures.
Oh gee, thanks. As if I, a degree holder in Germanic Langauges and Literature, NEVER heard of this 20th Century Germany business.
I was merely pointing out that people on slashdot should provide real examples (when possible), instead of theoretical predictions, because it strengthen's their original point. Yes, I've been guilty of it as well, but I grow tired of people's predictions, when they simply just need to cite the past.
Think it's impossible that you'll soon see laws here too that outlaw working abroad if you're a cryptography expert?
I AM a cryptologic expert, and I DO work overseas. Maybe it would assure you to surf on over to here http://www.stmarytx.edu/ctl/ before you make anymore predictions. There are checks and balances, and there are entire agencies in place to prevent all the things paranoid slashdotters keep predicting.
...cough...I've already posted several times on this thread...cough I haven't given my stance on wire-tapping though, because I might be monitoring my slashdot posts...oh, dammit....Get with the 21st century, people.We...errm, They don't just stick to phones anymore...that's so 1980s.
If you are worried about political backlash in your cause, can you honestly say you are a staunch supporter in the first place? I mean, if you believe in something, you stand strong for it, no? I stand for unpopular beliefs all the time, yet I never back down from them, just because they are unpopular.
Finally a real-world example of the misuse of power. Many other posters in this thread owe you sir. As if I was going to take their hypothetical, baseless predictions of what would happen, when they had every chance to tell us what has already happened. Nice post.
Stupid argument:
I'll gladly send you a pic of my junk. Everyone has genitals, big whoop, and my junk is pretty much average, I imagine. I have no fetishes, other than I like naked women. I've never done drugs. You can't have my bank account, because I don't trust my bank not to give my money away. I've voted about 55/45 Republican/Democrat, and I'm not ashamed to have done so (even though I've made some dumb votes in the past...cough, Perot, cough). You can have my cache, right after I remove my bank info, and you are welcome to my medical and dental records too. Surprise, you'll find no STD's. And even if you did, why would you care? I'll even give you my social security number, because it is too easy to get anyway. It is impossible to live in the cacoon of privacy that most of you are advocating on here.
So, I guess I really don't have anything to hide, and according to TFA, that makes me total boob who can't think for myself.
You are so right. Most asshole drivers aren't assholes because they don't know any better; they are assholes because they don't agree with the rules, and don't feel they should apply to them. They only look "not to get caught". Like any idiot at Wal-mart who's fat-ass spouse just waits in the car in the fire-lane for them to do their 45-minutes of shopping.
I wouldn't be horrified to see myself picking a wedgie or my nose, because I (well, WE) do it all the time...why should it bother me (or you, or anyone else for that matter)? If it bothered me, I wouldn't do it in the first place, but I do...so what?. We are too prude, as a society, and that is the problem here...not privacy. What's next? I get embarrassed because somebody saw me breathing in public/sweating on a hot day/scratching my armpit/doing a breath check, etc.?
I keep seeing this argument that they'll change the laws and go back in time to punish us, but nobody is providing any real examples. You can hypothesize all you like, but until the government actually does it on a systemic basis (not just isolated cases), then your point isn't valid.
All interesting points that would be more believable if you would provide some historical precedent. You may not be able to predict the future, but you can highlight the past.
Because divulging information about your private life (most likely) has no affect on national security, but divulging government secrets to the average citizen does. People not trained in handling sensitive material have no idea of how to safeguard it.
Go ahead and pummel me all you like, but anyone who truly has nothing to hide yet screams for their privacy most likely has a problem with authority, and in some cases rightfully so. However, just because I would like my municipality to install cameras in the downtown area, doesn't mean I care one freakin' bit if you are a chronic nose-picker, or that you have a fat butt. If, however, you are mugging little old ladies, or trashing public property because you are a stupid drunk, then I'd like to know. To counter this author's "misconceptions" about privacy, those charged with keeping track of all this "private" information have too much work to give a rats ass about normal people's weird habits. The NSA, for example, can't be bothered wasting 2 minutes listening in on your conversation, because they don't have enough operatives to handle all the REAL bad-guys in the world. In short: YOU aren't half as interesting as you think you are (and that goes for me too).
Sit back and laugh at the.015% of the population that is still sold on the belief we have to make computers work the way we want them to, while the rest of the planet expects companies to actually produce well-designed products that work as promised without requiring a PhD in Computer Science.
No kidding. I remember when MTV played an entire music video, and not just 30 seconds of the same three videos. And they played videos all day long, instead of the 30 minutes per day they do now. Why do pop stars even try to make songs that are longer than 50 seconds again?
I followed you "People who care a lot" link, and neary spit my coffee out as I am surfing this article from my Department of Defense terminal, and my Common Access Card is comfortably lodged in my window visor of my car. The problem with CAC is that it isn't required on every Department of Defense computer. My computer, for example, is a lame Dell with Windows 2000 Professional that doesn't seem to like its own USB port enough to allow the stupid CAC card reader to work. I don't even know if they make a CAC card reader for the old-ass SPARC terminals we use. I shutter at the thought of trying to get CAC access for OS X users as well, as the people who run the CAC program are as clueless as it gets, even in their windows-centric world.
From the briefing provided by your link: "A strong identity card program is built on sound business practices -including strong authentication of identity and digital authentication at all portal points"
Until there is a CAC card requirement at EVERY portal point, CAC cards are merely an inconvenience to legitimate users. Like somebody else said, "it only takes one copy of a movie". In this case, it only takes one non-CAC card DoD computer...I've been working for the DoD since the advent of the CAC program, and still have never used my CAC card for anything other than an id card.
I think I understand the "low penetration" bit now. It is because there are so many installed OLD tvs, that 100 million new HD tvs would barely make a mark. It is like the old argument that Mac OS X "only" has about 5% of the market share, but there are millions of Macs sold each year. I guess it is the same phenomena. In any case, I still don't know that many people that even have an old tv laying around. Some of my friends (and myself as well) have a tube tv, but that is in addition to our HD plasma. I don't believe people are waiting for the old one to die, but they ARE waiting for HD tvs to get into a reasonable price range (which they are now, as compared to a 35" tube tv 15 years ago). I would rekon that more people are buying HD tvs than the "penetration" figures would make us believe, kinda like Mac sales.
Even worse is charging an artist $5 to play covers, when he is only making $50 that night anyway. You take that $5 from the $50/night guy and give it to the $5 billion/year industry and things just don't settle well with us normal gigging musicians. I know, you will say "but the venue pays the fee, not the artists", but I assure you that if the bar paid $500 to allow cover bands, that bar is paying the cover band $5 less per gig to make up for that cost. I've played more bar-gigs than the number of bars most people go to in their lifetime. The LAST people the bars care about is the band, and I particularly get shat upon by being the unfortunate guy who has to setup an hour early, and leaves an hour after everyone else (yeah, that's me, the retarded drummer guy).
I gig a lot. I'm good enough that I can pick and choose where I play too. Open-mike venues shouldn't be charged royalty fees, because the music that goes on there is rarely recognizable as cover tunes...pretty bad, most of the time. If anything, the labels should be there paying the people to STOP playing and butchering the tunes;-)
I'm not trying to sound like a jerk, but the exclusion of the definite article "the" in e-mails (THE company...THE receptionists) is one of those "nerdy" things that people complain about when complaining about nerds-in-management positions. It just comes off as if you are too busy or important to be bothered with, well, people? Again, I'm not trying to be a jerk. I'm just trying to point out one of those things we may not think about when trying to figure out our own personal skills.
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And what do my balls and my voting record have to do with the government?
Well it is incredulous because they violate their own rules. They say that every portal must be challenged with the use of a CAC card and a user id/password and I'm happily typing away on my DoD computer, and my CAC card is in my car. Obviously, not EVERY portal requires the CAC card, so they are failing in their own security measures.
I was merely pointing out that people on slashdot should provide real examples (when possible), instead of theoretical predictions, because it strengthen's their original point. Yes, I've been guilty of it as well, but I grow tired of people's predictions, when they simply just need to cite the past.
I AM a cryptologic expert, and I DO work overseas. Maybe it would assure you to surf on over to here http://www.stmarytx.edu/ctl/ before you make anymore predictions. There are checks and balances, and there are entire agencies in place to prevent all the things paranoid slashdotters keep predicting....cough...I've already posted several times on this thread...cough I haven't given my stance on wire-tapping though, because I might be monitoring my slashdot posts...oh, dammit....Get with the 21st century, people.We...errm, They don't just stick to phones anymore...that's so 1980s.
If you are worried about political backlash in your cause, can you honestly say you are a staunch supporter in the first place? I mean, if you believe in something, you stand strong for it, no? I stand for unpopular beliefs all the time, yet I never back down from them, just because they are unpopular.
Finally a real-world example of the misuse of power. Many other posters in this thread owe you sir. As if I was going to take their hypothetical, baseless predictions of what would happen, when they had every chance to tell us what has already happened. Nice post.
Define "unreasonable". Once you can do that, we can solve this whole privacy problem.
So, I guess I really don't have anything to hide, and according to TFA, that makes me total boob who can't think for myself.
You are so right. Most asshole drivers aren't assholes because they don't know any better; they are assholes because they don't agree with the rules, and don't feel they should apply to them. They only look "not to get caught". Like any idiot at Wal-mart who's fat-ass spouse just waits in the car in the fire-lane for them to do their 45-minutes of shopping.
I wouldn't be horrified to see myself picking a wedgie or my nose, because I (well, WE) do it all the time...why should it bother me (or you, or anyone else for that matter)? If it bothered me, I wouldn't do it in the first place, but I do...so what?. We are too prude, as a society, and that is the problem here...not privacy. What's next? I get embarrassed because somebody saw me breathing in public/sweating on a hot day/scratching my armpit/doing a breath check, etc.?
I keep seeing this argument that they'll change the laws and go back in time to punish us, but nobody is providing any real examples. You can hypothesize all you like, but until the government actually does it on a systemic basis (not just isolated cases), then your point isn't valid.
All interesting points that would be more believable if you would provide some historical precedent. You may not be able to predict the future, but you can highlight the past.
Because divulging information about your private life (most likely) has no affect on national security, but divulging government secrets to the average citizen does. People not trained in handling sensitive material have no idea of how to safeguard it.
Go ahead and pummel me all you like, but anyone who truly has nothing to hide yet screams for their privacy most likely has a problem with authority, and in some cases rightfully so. However, just because I would like my municipality to install cameras in the downtown area, doesn't mean I care one freakin' bit if you are a chronic nose-picker, or that you have a fat butt. If, however, you are mugging little old ladies, or trashing public property because you are a stupid drunk, then I'd like to know. To counter this author's "misconceptions" about privacy, those charged with keeping track of all this "private" information have too much work to give a rats ass about normal people's weird habits. The NSA, for example, can't be bothered wasting 2 minutes listening in on your conversation, because they don't have enough operatives to handle all the REAL bad-guys in the world. In short: YOU aren't half as interesting as you think you are (and that goes for me too).
Sit back and laugh at the .015% of the population that is still sold on the belief we have to make computers work the way we want them to, while the rest of the planet expects companies to actually produce well-designed products that work as promised without requiring a PhD in Computer Science.
Appendix A: Get a Mac.
No kidding. I remember when MTV played an entire music video, and not just 30 seconds of the same three videos. And they played videos all day long, instead of the 30 minutes per day they do now. Why do pop stars even try to make songs that are longer than 50 seconds again?
Blogging is one of the most self-indulgent activities I can think of, other than being in a Prog Rock band.
From the briefing provided by your link: "A strong identity card program is built on sound business practices -including strong authentication of identity and digital authentication at all portal points"
Until there is a CAC card requirement at EVERY portal point, CAC cards are merely an inconvenience to legitimate users. Like somebody else said, "it only takes one copy of a movie". In this case, it only takes one non-CAC card DoD computer...I've been working for the DoD since the advent of the CAC program, and still have never used my CAC card for anything other than an id card.
This entire thread just points out how stupid I am on the Grand-Nerd scale of things ;-)
I think I understand the "low penetration" bit now. It is because there are so many installed OLD tvs, that 100 million new HD tvs would barely make a mark. It is like the old argument that Mac OS X "only" has about 5% of the market share, but there are millions of Macs sold each year. I guess it is the same phenomena. In any case, I still don't know that many people that even have an old tv laying around. Some of my friends (and myself as well) have a tube tv, but that is in addition to our HD plasma. I don't believe people are waiting for the old one to die, but they ARE waiting for HD tvs to get into a reasonable price range (which they are now, as compared to a 35" tube tv 15 years ago). I would rekon that more people are buying HD tvs than the "penetration" figures would make us believe, kinda like Mac sales.
Ahh, I see, you are in the LA scene. Move to West Texas, and they won't bother you one bit. Then again, you won't find any talent either.
Even worse is charging an artist $5 to play covers, when he is only making $50 that night anyway. You take that $5 from the $50/night guy and give it to the $5 billion/year industry and things just don't settle well with us normal gigging musicians. I know, you will say "but the venue pays the fee, not the artists", but I assure you that if the bar paid $500 to allow cover bands, that bar is paying the cover band $5 less per gig to make up for that cost. I've played more bar-gigs than the number of bars most people go to in their lifetime. The LAST people the bars care about is the band, and I particularly get shat upon by being the unfortunate guy who has to setup an hour early, and leaves an hour after everyone else (yeah, that's me, the retarded drummer guy).
I gig a lot. I'm good enough that I can pick and choose where I play too. Open-mike venues shouldn't be charged royalty fees, because the music that goes on there is rarely recognizable as cover tunes...pretty bad, most of the time. If anything, the labels should be there paying the people to STOP playing and butchering the tunes ;-)
I'm not trying to sound like a jerk, but the exclusion of the definite article "the" in e-mails (THE company...THE receptionists) is one of those "nerdy" things that people complain about when complaining about nerds-in-management positions. It just comes off as if you are too busy or important to be bothered with, well, people? Again, I'm not trying to be a jerk. I'm just trying to point out one of those things we may not think about when trying to figure out our own personal skills.