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So long as government creates laws based on industry think thanks and public relations organizations, over the will and actions of people (analogical to alcohol prohibition) , they are the enemy.
I'm not sure the short-sightedness was political in this case. Rather who knew what the internet would become, or that 640k was not enough for everyone. You could argue that the problem is political/social vs technical, but there are some interesting overlay network topographies that I wish were standard.
Imagine if, due to encryption and cryptographic addressing, the internet was all or nothing for any given nation. All that ever passed your ISP was an encrypted data stream. Oh how those in power would squirm.
It's hard to argue against control of the internet without appearing pro-piracy, and worst, pro-child pornography. And that is just what governments want, because the internet is our best tool so far, for keeping government in check.
Once the mechanisms of control are in place, everything is screwed. I just wish the internet had had a few less single points of failure, and a lot more encryption built it; but then who could see that far ahead.
Modern is relative, and all empires collapse from internal and/or external pressures. I guess what you mean, is you didn't expect it to happen in YOUR time.
The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
...at the beginning of the decade I believed this, but turns out it doesn't if the damage is sufficient.
To sum up this decade: We marvelled upon the freedoms that networked computers promised; not merely electronic versions of existing media, but a whole new frontier, only to watch it be crushed for the most trivial of reasons.
1. Protectionism in the popular music and film industry. All that is trivial, frivolous yet mildly entertaining in our culture. 2. The completely non-existent, child predator moral-panic, boogeyman. 3. Security theatre and the statistically vanishing threat of global terrorism.
Out of a comprehensive list of possible reasons, those have to right at the bottom of the list, scraping the barrel of pathetic excuses.
Thanks to the laws of physics, they will only be micro-power overlords. Though perhaps they won't need massive amounts of force to subdue humanity; from what I've seen, most people would choose the blue pill.
I never understood the expert-s-exchange.com business model.
You have to pay to view the answer... but only if you're too stupid or lazy to scroll to the bottom? Someone obviously was having problems though, because I once saw a diagram of the site, and instructions on how to scroll to the answer.
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Didn't you even read TFS?
The moral of the story is to buy a normal flash drive and encrypt it using Truecrypt, then you are not at the whims of Kingston/SanDisk/Verbatim, keeping their closed source, windows only software patched.
I see in infra-red wavelengths you insensitive clod.
Having sex in front of your bay windows without tinfoil drapes is indecent exposure. Which I love.
Sounds like his company is cross-breeding cows with orks, to create an army worthy of Mordor, but without violating Saruman's Uruk-hai patent.
Nasty instant Coffee?
That's nothing. Where I work, we have go outside, and chew the leaves and beans off coffee bushes ourselves.
It's a conceptual XKCD link.
The concept of the link takes precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns.
There are two issues:
1. Physical ability to rip the DVD (Weak encryption)
2. Legal right to rip the DVD (Fair use/DMCA)
There is an XKCD strip. I'm sure someone will post it.
Bottom line. Torrent it.
00:DE:AD:BE:EF
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I have gained this from musicology: That I refuse Sony BMG music downloads, that others only avoid from fear of the law.
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Windows Optimizer is a serious internets tool developed and published by advanced programmers and is used by every clever Microsoft Windows user. It is considered the best program to speed up your PC, and has been estimated to have been downloaded over 9000 times per second and has won many internet awards. Features include instant-defragging, cache-cleaner, registry cleaner, etc.
It assists the user in deleting a system default which is shipped with most new computers, but the average internet user finds it a lengthy and difficult process to remove it.
The 2008 version is compatible with Windows XP and Vista. The new 2009-r1a freeware is compatible with Windows 95 through Windows 7. It eliminates virii and those pesky DLLs that even Windows 2000 won't delete! Download your copy on the internets.
Testimonials:
TURBO IS FUCKING AWESOME
Wow i get loads more fps, thanks man!
Wow this unlocked the ability to download a whole new video card to my desktop for FREE! This program is a must have!
I've already got MY ipv6 address.
So long as government creates laws based on industry think thanks and public relations organizations, over the will and actions of people (analogical to alcohol prohibition) , they are the enemy.
I'm not sure the short-sightedness was political in this case. Rather who knew what the internet would become, or that 640k was not enough for everyone.
You could argue that the problem is political/social vs technical, but there are some interesting overlay network topographies that I wish were standard.
Imagine if, due to encryption and cryptographic addressing, the internet was all or nothing for any given nation. All that ever passed your ISP was an encrypted data stream.
Oh how those in power would squirm.
It's hard to argue against control of the internet without appearing pro-piracy, and worst, pro-child pornography.
And that is just what governments want, because the internet is our best tool so far, for keeping government in check.
Once the mechanisms of control are in place, everything is screwed. I just wish the internet had had a few less single points of failure, and a lot more encryption built it; but then who could see that far ahead.
Modern is relative, and all empires collapse from internal and/or external pressures.
I guess what you mean, is you didn't expect it to happen in YOUR time.
The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
...at the beginning of the decade I believed this, but turns out it doesn't if the damage is sufficient.
To sum up this decade: We marvelled upon the freedoms that networked computers promised; not merely electronic versions of existing media, but a whole new frontier, only to watch it be crushed for the most trivial of reasons.
1. Protectionism in the popular music and film industry. All that is trivial, frivolous yet mildly entertaining in our culture.
2. The completely non-existent, child predator moral-panic, boogeyman.
3. Security theatre and the statistically vanishing threat of global terrorism.
Out of a comprehensive list of possible reasons, those have to right at the bottom of the list, scraping the barrel of pathetic excuses.
People say the same about crystal meth
Holy shit, that's a lot of placebo.
But just wait until I convince everyone to eat my lawn. I'll be rich!
Oh wait ... http://www.hollandandbarrett.com/pages/product_detail.asp?pid=138
but then I reverted it.
Oh look, it's the obligatory "The whole of the African continent resembles the Serengeti, and everyone lives in a mud hut" comment.
NO U
OLPC announces vapour-ware.
ASUS releases actual product a year or two before.
OPLC never materialises.
The cycle continues.
To the extent that that is true, it's great.
But openness is also getting abused to mean its exact opposite.
Doublespeak! Beware openwashing
Those of us who descended from the mammalian evolutionary tree, keep our bodies warmer than ambient temperatures.
Thanks to the laws of physics, they will only be micro-power overlords.
Though perhaps they won't need massive amounts of force to subdue humanity; from what I've seen, most people would choose the blue pill.
I'd like to see a medium-long facebook outage.
Certain hardcore users would get physical withdraw symptoms, coma, then death.
I never understood the expert-s-exchange.com business model.
You have to pay to view the answer ... but only if you're too stupid or lazy to scroll to the bottom?
Someone obviously was having problems though, because I once saw a diagram of the site, and instructions on how to scroll to the answer.