Sure, but what about "all your eggs in one basket"? Are they going to have multiple firewalls within their own LAN, or if you can breach just one of the 50 gateways, do you have access to everything? I'm not even going to get into how much pity I feel for government workers that need to access the public internet, it's going to be slower than dialup by the time they get done with it. For that matter, this is the public sector we're talking about: there's going to be exceptions to this, regardless of "policy". It just seems like a hopeless waste of time, money, and resources.
..the "What could POSSIBLY go wrong?" tag. Wouldn't you say that one of the possible side effects of this move, is that it allows alleged attackers to concentrate their attacks by a factor of 80? Isn't this the IT equivalent of moving the whole population of Minas Tirith into Helm's Deep? All it took there was one big explosion and all the defenses were toast.
..or Joe, in this case. Yet another uninformed politician, sabre-rattling for the benefit of his Big Business campaign contributors. There is NEVER going to be ANYTHING they can do to stamp out so-called "illegal activities", not even if our country became a completely totalitarian dictatorship, where you have to have authorization papers to use the toilet. So they start monitoring every single packet for P2P traffic, looking for "illegal content"? They'll encrypt the traffic. Break the encryption? Stronger encryption, or change the protocol, or both. Logging IP addresses? People will use onion networks like TOR. Logging MAC addresses? People will rotate them. You couldn't even ban the general public's use of the internet and stop it, we'd just go back to using SneakerNet, or (more likely) some people would just start their own grass-roots effort to build private wireless networks.
Memo to politicians: Give it up! You're wasting taxpayer money. Want to be smart about this? Find a way to tax it instead! Then everybody gets paid, and everybody gets what they want.
Memo to Big Business: Stop your bellyaching and get into the 21st century already.
..oh, and while I'm at it,
Memo to the inevitable, whiny, "I produce $CONTENT and everybody rips me off" guy: STFU, if your content was worth anything then you'd be getting paid for it, and I don't give a rats ASS about what you have to say on the subject.
Why? So when someone steals your identity, they can steal your entire life history along with it? So the government can come along and seize it from you, tear it apart, and twist it into whatever foul thing they decide you should be guilty of? So every person who can get their hands on it can Monday morning quarterback every experience you've ever held dear and important decision you've ever made? Thanks, but no thanks. Somebody please round up all the people who think this is a good idea, put them up against a wall, and shoot them dead.
Downloads aren't "merchandise" they're a "data service", really. If you get physical media shipped to you then it's "merchandise". Typical politicians, tax the fuck out of everything they can think of. They'd tax every breath we take if they could find a way to justify it.
Should end users be ultimately responsible for the state of their systems? Hahaha, you very funny. The average end user isn't competent enough to ensure the security of their computer system. Hell, they can't even seem to learn to stop clicking on "free stuff" links that install malware/adware/trojans. Assigning blame for the state of things isn't productive.
"The Banking Code produced by the British Bankers' Association (BBA), and followed by most banks.. so much for the credibility of any "decisions" they hand down. Of course they're going to protect their own interests (so to speak) and try to slough off the blame onto their customers, they're banks!
I'm as concerned about third parties snooping into things that aren't their damned business, but there's another concern here too: if this is actually going on, then we're all paying for it, too! We're footing the bill for the technology that's being used to snoop into every freakin' packet sent or received. That's complete bullshit; I'm paying for bandwidth, not for motherfuckers at Comcast (or wherever) looking at what I'm buying online, or personal communications I'm sending to friends, or whatever I'm doing. I don't know about anyone else, but if this kind of shit gets too much worse, they're going to have a rude awakening: I'll just cancel the damned service completely and just not have internet at home anymore. Let's see them 'deep packet inspect' me having a personal, face-to-face conversation with people in a private home!
And they can get the hell off my lawn, while they're at it.
What a bunch of crap. Inetersting though to see that the Aussies are just as much a bunch of greedy motherfuckers as their North American counterparts. Don't they read global news sources? Don't they see what's happening to the recording industry here because of shit like this?
In my last job of six years, and my current job, I'll do whatever I have to, to keep the IT guys out of my work computer. After having to endure poorly thought-out software pushes and strange domain policy choices that essentially crippled computers on the network, I stopped calling them for help with any local-machine issues and just took care of it myself, being very wary of them physically touching the machine on my desktop at all. Guess what? Never had any more issues with it: no trojans, virii, misbehaving OS or applications -- just like my own personal machines.:D Luckily where I work now, the IT department is in Australia (I'm in California) so their opportunity to be obtrusive is minimal at best, and so far they don't seem to have any inclination to be too hands-on with workstations.
Of course this works out well in my case because I actually know what I'm doing, and more to the point I don't do stupid things (like run P2P and/or eat up all the available bandwidth on our skinny little pipe); your mileage may vary. The average user isn't so well equipped to make sound decisions about such things, though.
I'm really feeling unsure how to react to being corrected (?) like that. Are you trying to be helpful, or are you just being a troll? "Correction" not withstanding, my point remains just as valid: roadway lighting enhances driving safety.
I'll bet you a dollar that switching streetlamps on and off randomly would end up costing more in lamp replacement than they'd save dollar-wise on energy.
Obviously you've never had to make your way home on a deserted mountain road at 2:00am. Headlights are woefully inadequate, especially considering how unskilled the average driver is. Streetlights not only make conditions safer for drivers, they make conditions safer for pedestrians, and in residential neighborhoods they deter burglars and other common criminals.
If you really want to fumble around in the dark in your neighborhood, that's your business, but I know that burglars and other common criminals thrive in the dark, the best way IMO to keep your home and neighborhood safe from them is to make sure there's adequate street lighting.
..and besides that, who's to say that this technology can't be scaled down for interior lighting use? They're claiming double the efficiency of LEDs, full-spectrum, and 20K hours of lifespan. If possible, who woudldn't want that inside -- or outside -- their house?
I have used "no.one@nowhere.org" and "some.one@somewhere.org" as bogus email addresses before, but never thought of using "donotreply.com" for anything. In fact, I'd pay good money (and have offered several times, only to be ignored) to have an email address @somewhere.org or @nowhere.org..
I see more and more stories of this sort lately. Everybody and their brother is piling on now. It's like a string of serial murders, and every whack-job in the world is going to the police with a signed confession in hand, but no proof they had anything to do with any of it, they just want attention -- and in this case, money. Or how when someone with money dies, every 3rd cousin that no-one has ever heard of comes out of the woodwork looking for a hand-out.
Either that, or these people are trying to break the current patent system by exploiting it and overloading the courts with these allegedly bullshit patent suits.
..the person quoted in the article to +5, Insightful. I think he's got the right of it, game pirates are always going to find a way around your protection scheme you spend $1,000,000 developing, so why worry about it? Most people will pay for the game anyway.
At least the public defender's office mentioned understands something of the nature of the thing. Unsecured WiFI APs are the "VCR flashing 12:00" for the 21st century, and the other half of the equation is how any WiFi interface will by default connect to the first AP it can do so with regardless of who ows it. Also how are they planning on differentiating between businesses and individuals that purposefully leave their APs open for customers or neighbors to use at will, are they planning to make them criminals as well? Stupid.
We're not "civilized" or "advanced" in any sense of the word, as a race. We're just one step up (if that!) from the rest of the animals on this planet, and as a race my point is proven over and over every single day that passes. Come back to me in about another 1,000 to 10,000 years and try that "advanced" and "civilized" bit, perhaps someone will be able to make an argument to make it stick -- but not today.
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Sure, but what about "all your eggs in one basket"? Are they going to have multiple firewalls within their own LAN, or if you can breach just one of the 50 gateways, do you have access to everything? I'm not even going to get into how much pity I feel for government workers that need to access the public internet, it's going to be slower than dialup by the time they get done with it. For that matter, this is the public sector we're talking about: there's going to be exceptions to this, regardless of "policy". It just seems like a hopeless waste of time, money, and resources.
..the "What could POSSIBLY go wrong?" tag. Wouldn't you say that one of the possible side effects of this move, is that it allows alleged attackers to concentrate their attacks by a factor of 80? Isn't this the IT equivalent of moving the whole population of Minas Tirith into Helm's Deep? All it took there was one big explosion and all the defenses were toast.
..but the whole OLPC thing really does need a "What could POSSIBLY go wrong?" tag. Sad, sad, sad.
that's going to work, sure it will. What a bunch of dumbasses.
Memo to politicians: Give it up! You're wasting taxpayer money. Want to be smart about this? Find a way to tax it instead! Then everybody gets paid, and everybody gets what they want.
Memo to Big Business: Stop your bellyaching and get into the 21st century already.
Memo to the inevitable, whiny, "I produce $CONTENT and everybody rips me off" guy: STFU, if your content was worth anything then you'd be getting paid for it, and I don't give a rats ASS about what you have to say on the subject.
Step #1: Obtain flourescent spraypaint Step #2: Climb roof with supplies obtained in Step #1 Step #3: Spraypaint "Eff You Bush" on flat-top roof of house Step #4a: Hilarity ensues Step #4b: Publicity ensues Step #5: Profit!
Why? So when someone steals your identity, they can steal your entire life history along with it? So the government can come along and seize it from you, tear it apart, and twist it into whatever foul thing they decide you should be guilty of? So every person who can get their hands on it can Monday morning quarterback every experience you've ever held dear and important decision you've ever made? Thanks, but no thanks. Somebody please round up all the people who think this is a good idea, put them up against a wall, and shoot them dead.
Downloads aren't "merchandise" they're a "data service", really. If you get physical media shipped to you then it's "merchandise". Typical politicians, tax the fuck out of everything they can think of. They'd tax every breath we take if they could find a way to justify it.
Do they live next door to the Slowskys?
"The Banking Code produced by the British Bankers' Association (BBA), and followed by most banks.. so much for the credibility of any "decisions" they hand down. Of course they're going to protect their own interests (so to speak) and try to slough off the blame onto their customers, they're banks!
And they can get the hell off my lawn, while they're at it.
What a bunch of crap. Inetersting though to see that the Aussies are just as much a bunch of greedy motherfuckers as their North American counterparts. Don't they read global news sources? Don't they see what's happening to the recording industry here because of shit like this?
Of course this works out well in my case because I actually know what I'm doing, and more to the point I don't do stupid things (like run P2P and/or eat up all the available bandwidth on our skinny little pipe); your mileage may vary. The average user isn't so well equipped to make sound decisions about such things, though.
They already pay licensing fees every month. If they had to pay more, then broadcast radio would more or less go belly-up.
I'm really feeling unsure how to react to being corrected (?) like that. Are you trying to be helpful, or are you just being a troll? "Correction" not withstanding, my point remains just as valid: roadway lighting enhances driving safety.
I'll bet you a dollar that switching streetlamps on and off randomly would end up costing more in lamp replacement than they'd save dollar-wise on energy.
Obviously you've never had to make your way home on a deserted mountain road at 2:00am. Headlights are woefully inadequate, especially considering how unskilled the average driver is. Streetlights not only make conditions safer for drivers, they make conditions safer for pedestrians, and in residential neighborhoods they deter burglars and other common criminals.
I have used "no.one@nowhere.org" and "some.one@somewhere.org" as bogus email addresses before, but never thought of using "donotreply.com" for anything. In fact, I'd pay good money (and have offered several times, only to be ignored) to have an email address @somewhere.org or @nowhere.org..
Either that, or these people are trying to break the current patent system by exploiting it and overloading the courts with these allegedly bullshit patent suits.
What, no goatse reference and link? Sheesh, can't count on anyone to be consistent these days :-/
..the person quoted in the article to +5, Insightful. I think he's got the right of it, game pirates are always going to find a way around your protection scheme you spend $1,000,000 developing, so why worry about it? Most people will pay for the game anyway.
At least the public defender's office mentioned understands something of the nature of the thing. Unsecured WiFI APs are the "VCR flashing 12:00" for the 21st century, and the other half of the equation is how any WiFi interface will by default connect to the first AP it can do so with regardless of who ows it. Also how are they planning on differentiating between businesses and individuals that purposefully leave their APs open for customers or neighbors to use at will, are they planning to make them criminals as well? Stupid.
We're not "civilized" or "advanced" in any sense of the word, as a race. We're just one step up (if that!) from the rest of the animals on this planet, and as a race my point is proven over and over every single day that passes. Come back to me in about another 1,000 to 10,000 years and try that "advanced" and "civilized" bit, perhaps someone will be able to make an argument to make it stick -- but not today.