Sorry, I accidentally made reference to TFS, forgetting that many on/. lack the skill to READ before commenting. I'll clarify for the shortbus crowd:
The name of the Act is Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act. It does nothing to protect privacy.
It seems you are riding the shortbus. All you did was parrot two words in the summary and say that only one can exist at one time, which is untrue. Aside from your baseless and unwarranted character attacks....
Your illogical, meandering rant aside, as long as you are under surveillance, you're are not experiencing privacy. The act of surveillance necessitates the removal of privacy.
No. My rant is quite logical and far from random or aimless, which is implied by meandering. Your disregard for the context of TFS (which I did read) is misleading. It most certainly is talking about privacy of citizens as a whole and surveillance as it relates to single individuals.
You do a disservice to the People by implying that you can't have privacy and surveillance at the same time. Surveillance is oft mistaken for security, so what you are really saying is that you cannot have Privacy and Security at the same time.
That is a dangerous argument to make that only enables people to take away more from the People in the name of providing greater security.
We as a people can protect Privacy and still have more than adequate tools available to law enforcement and intelligence agencies to conduct surveillance where appropriate and authorized by due process on single individuals at one time .
Making statements like that will only lead the sheeple, as a consequence of their fear, further into an environment in which law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and foreign or unauthorized actors can access vast troves of information in fishing expeditions, plenty of which can be quite detrimental to the People.
Yes, you can have Privacy and Surveillance at the same time.
What you meant was, "Privacy or Mass Surveillance.... You can't have both".
Privacy in the long run will always benefit the People more than governments use of mass surveillance to allegedly provide the People with more security. The common mistake is treating the government like a regular person and evaluating their possession of information as having the same possible consequences which completely ignores the massive differences in power between both actors.
Simple surveillance, under Due Process, is not affected by creating laws to protect Privacy, or laws that ban the use of mass surveillance on people.
Law enforcement and governments will always have enough resources and technology to intercept communications and watch a single person. It is the traditional stake out, using listening devices, gathering information the old fashioned way, etc. They might not be able to do this to millions of people at one time, but that is the point. It is dangerous to allow them to do that.
Convince me that more than 10% of the population is currently engaged in conspiracies to commit heinous and violent acts against other citizens (forget that bullshit about the War on Drugs) and it *might* be a point for discussion.
The greatest danger we face is the government. That's not paranoia either, but simple observation of the facts and history.
I have experience with fraccing, and have been on several very deep wells with huge fracs (or so I thought).
Logically, by most definitions of fraccing it is nigh impossible for the water table to be affected by activity thousands of feet below. If it is being affected it is because of shoddy casing (the cement lined straw that goes through all the formations), which has nothing to do with fraccing.
Shoddy casing is surprisingly more common than I thought. Fraccing puts a lot of strain on casing anyways. A bad casing job will absolutely have problems if it is exposed to the water table.
Several months ago a poster pointed me to an article about a different method of fraccing that is being used in these wells. For the life of me I wish I had it book marked. It described a fraccing process that I could only say was irresponsible at best. It was *not* a simple one time frac thousands of feet below water tables.
The method described in this article could easily affect water tables in a short period of time.
When I first heard about the controversy over fraccing I thought exactly as you did. It was ridiculous. Basic knowledge about fraccing precludes such possibilities.
I tried looking up the article in Google again... and lo and behold... 4 advertisements. 2 pro, and 2 con. Can't find anything about this method of fraccing anymore. Hmmmm....
Which is why it does not seem like that big of a deal to me.
If you are already bought into Apple, you must be happy with your shiny little cage (excuse me.. garden) and are plenty happy with Apple telling you what is good and what is not, and what you are allowed to do.
I'm not really trying to troll here (sincerely), but every Apple user I find is so deep into wanton consumerism and group-think that trying to explain to them why it might be bad to implicitly trust Siri in all things seems kind of like a lost cause.
Once you're in the Garden, there is only the Shiny everywhere..... It's like ignorance is bliss, but just more metrosexual.
Yeah. I am very well aware of that. Every time my roommate used to heat up a hot pocket the latency fucking sucked when trying to pwn somebody in Halo:)
yea, emit enough IR and you can make those pesky Balls burn away.
I think that is what we are concerned with most....
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That's unreasonable.
Do you expect a painter, or author, to keep up with small modifications (that you elect are required) 10 years after the sale? That hardly sounds reasonable at all.
Copyright allows them the sole right to distribute copyrighted material, it does not allow them the sole right to modifications. Once you have something in your possession, and copyrighted material is no different, you can modify to your hearts content.
What is prohibited is distributing the copyrighted work with said modifications, but nothing prevents you from explaining those modifications or releasing your own patches. The DMCA is often used to unethically block such modifications, but has nothing to do with expecting code updates 10 years later.
I honestly don't see how you can reasonably expect a developer to spend his/her time 10 years later to make updates simply because you think they are blocking your right to modify.
In spirit, I do agree that 10 years should be more than enough to profit from a game and that afterwards anybody can do anything with it. Might be difficult without source........
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That's all fine and somewhat admirable.
However, it is not what I am expecting of them. The CD requirement should have never been there in the first place, and I don't find it reasonable to expect updates to code 10 years later for a game.
What I do expect is to be able to play a game 10 years later without any special authorization from servers, or for that matter, any knowledge by anyone that I am even doing it.
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That's why I am not buying it. I loved the original Diablos.
If they think I am going to pay that much money for a frontend and not have the game 5-10 years later they are smoking something.
I would not buy a book, song, or movie like that (and neither would most people) so why the hell is software somehow exempt?
Private swarms originate from private trackers. Private trackers regulate uploads and only allow vetted content for the group. It solves the issue of trust on a large scale quite nicely.
Which is why, as another poster pointed out, this is such a good thing to happen.
It will force the protocol to evolve, and even better, force people into more private swarms. It is far better to have 100 private swarms all exchanging encrypted traffic, while not exchanging peers (the tracker is there for that), and for people to create new private swarms between their peers. You compromise a single private swarm it will do insignificant damage to the overall traffic.
I want attacks like this to continue. The PTB is a shit stain on an Internet traffic, just as much as Limewire, Kazaa, etc. Public swarms are mostly infected, low quality, garbage.
It's time for regular people to be forced to get an education again on how the Internet works.
I don't think castration is nearly sufficient. They should bring back something the Chinese called Horse Weapon Punishment. Primarily used on women back then... well.... let's just say it is quite appropriate revenge and they will never be walking again. Assuming they even survive...
The blogger is young punk. Magnifying glasses will be around for a long time. Anyone sufficiently advanced in age has a couple laying around the house and in their wallet (the flat ones) to read things.
Everything you mentioned is debatable though as to whether or not it could be recognized for its function.
A sextant would hardly be recognized today as being related to navigation. It's not like you could use that as an icon for Google navigation on a smartphone.
Well except the wrenches and gears. Anyone technically inclined is going to to assume it either means settings, configurations, or basically anything that has to do with the low level function or repair of a program. Technology is going to have to change at a real fundamental level before you no longer need a wrench. We still use bricks and nails today and those are pretty damn old. Objects like wrenches, hammers, and ladders are going to be pretty self-explanatory for some time.
What I find interesting is you missed the ones that are hardly debatable IMO:
1) Radio button... well I am kind of guessing this a radio button on a form? Cuz I have never seen a radio icon in a mainstream program... ever. If it is the form one, it makes no sense at all.
2) Calendar button. Uhhhhhh.... how else are you going to visually represent days and weeks grouped into months? Until we switch over to Stardate blah blah blah I don't see that representation changing much at all or losing its relevancy.
3) Manila folder. People still print out hard copies all the time and need to physically group these objects together. A folder makes logical sense as an object that accomplishes that in the most efficient way possible. A book, even more so. Even with the advent of ebooks and readers I don't think physical books are going to go away for another 100 years or more, and will be recognizable for what they are for hundreds of years after that. We still recognize a spear as something to shove into somebody right? A book will represent information for quite a long time.
Or one could feed and educate the poor. Just a thought.
Awwwww... That's so sweet and noble.... but does it get us anywhere closer to beaming down to other planets and nailing hot space aliens while simultaneously carrying out foreign policy?
It's manageable by individuals, but a mob will almost certainly run
What a wonderful idea. Take a large group of people that are already agitated and experiencing "mob mentality" and cause them to stampede like frightened animals in pain.
Oh yes. That will end well with no injuries or casualties. Completely certain.
Stuff like this makes me want to just say fuck the Olympics and not spend a single damn dime supporting it. If it means I have to deal with the TSA and walking down streets protected by.50 cals and sonic cannons it is no longer interesting or fun.
That is precisely what all these dipshit politicians do not understand. By creating a police state and thoroughly removing all joy from life the terrorists have a complete victory.
I don't think it is like that anymore, not by a long shot.
The military is a closed system strictly separated from any influence on civilians. It takes extraordinary circumstances for the National Guard to be mobilized (Katrina) and especially the main branches of the military on our home soil.
To say their mindset is like that of regular law enforcement is incorrect. People don't join the military to have control over civilians, unlike many other countries, say.... like Burma or North Korea.
I might feel the way you do if I routinely see a military officer in uniform, in public, armed and giving orders to civilians. Only time in my life I have ever seen that was in airport shortly after 9/11.
Normally, you would think the guy is a fucking nut, not even in the military, and call the police.
Not a big one, by yourself, but if people in this country would stop being so defeatist, they could make a big difference in aggregate.
The problem are the choices. On one hand you have a big shaved ape that is going to take you in the corner and buttfuck you. On the other hand, you have a big shaved ape that is going to rape you in the face.
Geeee.... I wonder why so many people are just burned out and disillusioned about even making the choice?
With partisan politics being so damned bad, even the moderates that at least gave you a reach around are leaving.
Nobody is going to have any sympathy for you because you need to realize one simple immutable fact:
nobody wants the shit you are responsible for making. nobody. everybody hates you with the burning passion of a thousand suns. the only way for you to get advertisements in front of people is by the lack of choice.
Therefore, you are already deeply unethical in any attempt to sue somebody out of existence like Dish Network that is providing what the customer wants (Sonicblue), and deeply disturbed and sociopathic with your successful attempt to ruin television with disruptive overlays during programming.
The only way you can survive is by continuing to make sure the consumer has the lack of choice, and then you sit there with the unmitigated gall to complain when choice is provided.
Get a clue. Get a different career. I suggest Ambulance Chasing Lawyer or the guys who provide fresh meat for Hostel-like entertainment packages in Eastern European countries. You know.... something with a little more heart.
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Sorry, I accidentally made reference to TFS, forgetting that many on /. lack the skill to READ before commenting. I'll clarify for the shortbus crowd:
The name of the Act is Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act. It does nothing to protect privacy.
It seems you are riding the shortbus. All you did was parrot two words in the summary and say that only one can exist at one time, which is untrue. Aside from your baseless and unwarranted character attacks....
Your illogical, meandering rant aside, as long as you are under surveillance, you're are not experiencing privacy. The act of surveillance necessitates the removal of privacy.
No. My rant is quite logical and far from random or aimless, which is implied by meandering. Your disregard for the context of TFS (which I did read) is misleading. It most certainly is talking about privacy of citizens as a whole and surveillance as it relates to single individuals.
You do a disservice to the People by implying that you can't have privacy and surveillance at the same time. Surveillance is oft mistaken for security, so what you are really saying is that you cannot have Privacy and Security at the same time.
That is a dangerous argument to make that only enables people to take away more from the People in the name of providing greater security.
We as a people can protect Privacy and still have more than adequate tools available to law enforcement and intelligence agencies to conduct surveillance where appropriate and authorized by due process on single individuals at one time .
Making statements like that will only lead the sheeple, as a consequence of their fear, further into an environment in which law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and foreign or unauthorized actors can access vast troves of information in fishing expeditions, plenty of which can be quite detrimental to the People.
Yes, you can have Privacy and Surveillance at the same time.
With respect, bullshit
What you meant was, "Privacy or Mass Surveillance.... You can't have both".
Privacy in the long run will always benefit the People more than governments use of mass surveillance to allegedly provide the People with more security. The common mistake is treating the government like a regular person and evaluating their possession of information as having the same possible consequences which completely ignores the massive differences in power between both actors.
Simple surveillance, under Due Process, is not affected by creating laws to protect Privacy, or laws that ban the use of mass surveillance on people.
Law enforcement and governments will always have enough resources and technology to intercept communications and watch a single person. It is the traditional stake out, using listening devices, gathering information the old fashioned way, etc. They might not be able to do this to millions of people at one time, but that is the point. It is dangerous to allow them to do that.
Convince me that more than 10% of the population is currently engaged in conspiracies to commit heinous and violent acts against other citizens (forget that bullshit about the War on Drugs) and it *might* be a point for discussion.
The greatest danger we face is the government . That's not paranoia either, but simple observation of the facts and history.
Sony Smartwatch?
Yeah... but unlike so many other advertisements every one of your dollars that goes to Sony really does support terrorism :)
You would think that right?
I have experience with fraccing, and have been on several very deep wells with huge fracs (or so I thought).
Logically, by most definitions of fraccing it is nigh impossible for the water table to be affected by activity thousands of feet below. If it is being affected it is because of shoddy casing (the cement lined straw that goes through all the formations), which has nothing to do with fraccing.
Shoddy casing is surprisingly more common than I thought. Fraccing puts a lot of strain on casing anyways. A bad casing job will absolutely have problems if it is exposed to the water table.
Several months ago a poster pointed me to an article about a different method of fraccing that is being used in these wells. For the life of me I wish I had it book marked. It described a fraccing process that I could only say was irresponsible at best. It was *not* a simple one time frac thousands of feet below water tables.
The method described in this article could easily affect water tables in a short period of time.
When I first heard about the controversy over fraccing I thought exactly as you did. It was ridiculous. Basic knowledge about fraccing precludes such possibilities.
I tried looking up the article in Google again... and lo and behold... 4 advertisements. 2 pro, and 2 con. Can't find anything about this method of fraccing anymore. Hmmmm....
Which is why it does not seem like that big of a deal to me.
If you are already bought into Apple, you must be happy with your shiny little cage (excuse me.. garden) and are plenty happy with Apple telling you what is good and what is not, and what you are allowed to do.
I'm not really trying to troll here (sincerely), but every Apple user I find is so deep into wanton consumerism and group-think that trying to explain to them why it might be bad to implicitly trust Siri in all things seems kind of like a lost cause.
Once you're in the Garden, there is only the Shiny everywhere..... It's like ignorance is bliss, but just more metrosexual.
You're both crazy. Fruit loops are the best loops period.
Yeah. I am very well aware of that. Every time my roommate used to heat up a hot pocket the latency fucking sucked when trying to pwn somebody in Halo :)
yea, emit enough IR and you can make those pesky Balls burn away.
I think that is what we are concerned with most....
That's unreasonable.
Do you expect a painter, or author, to keep up with small modifications (that you elect are required) 10 years after the sale? That hardly sounds reasonable at all.
Copyright allows them the sole right to distribute copyrighted material, it does not allow them the sole right to modifications. Once you have something in your possession, and copyrighted material is no different, you can modify to your hearts content.
What is prohibited is distributing the copyrighted work with said modifications, but nothing prevents you from explaining those modifications or releasing your own patches. The DMCA is often used to unethically block such modifications, but has nothing to do with expecting code updates 10 years later.
I honestly don't see how you can reasonably expect a developer to spend his/her time 10 years later to make updates simply because you think they are blocking your right to modify.
In spirit, I do agree that 10 years should be more than enough to profit from a game and that afterwards anybody can do anything with it. Might be difficult without source........
That's all fine and somewhat admirable.
However, it is not what I am expecting of them. The CD requirement should have never been there in the first place, and I don't find it reasonable to expect updates to code 10 years later for a game.
What I do expect is to be able to play a game 10 years later without any special authorization from servers, or for that matter, any knowledge by anyone that I am even doing it.
That's why I am not buying it. I loved the original Diablos.
If they think I am going to pay that much money for a frontend and not have the game 5-10 years later they are smoking something.
I would not buy a book, song, or movie like that (and neither would most people) so why the hell is software somehow exempt?
So... in other words... they prepared the pasture... lured in the sheeples... and now it is time for the harvest?
Sure they do.
Private swarms originate from private trackers. Private trackers regulate uploads and only allow vetted content for the group. It solves the issue of trust on a large scale quite nicely.
Which is why, as another poster pointed out, this is such a good thing to happen.
It will force the protocol to evolve, and even better, force people into more private swarms. It is far better to have 100 private swarms all exchanging encrypted traffic, while not exchanging peers (the tracker is there for that), and for people to create new private swarms between their peers. You compromise a single private swarm it will do insignificant damage to the overall traffic.
I want attacks like this to continue. The PTB is a shit stain on an Internet traffic, just as much as Limewire, Kazaa, etc. Public swarms are mostly infected, low quality, garbage.
It's time for regular people to be forced to get an education again on how the Internet works.
I don't think castration is nearly sufficient. They should bring back something the Chinese called Horse Weapon Punishment. Primarily used on women back then... well.... let's just say it is quite appropriate revenge and they will never be walking again. Assuming they even survive...
Faggots had meaning long before men that took it up the ass co-opted the word too.... what's your point?
Cuz I am pretty sure he did not mean "old happy fuckers".
The blogger is young punk. Magnifying glasses will be around for a long time. Anyone sufficiently advanced in age has a couple laying around the house and in their wallet (the flat ones) to read things.
Just wait till they get older :)
Everything you mentioned is debatable though as to whether or not it could be recognized for its function.
A sextant would hardly be recognized today as being related to navigation. It's not like you could use that as an icon for Google navigation on a smartphone.
Well except the wrenches and gears. Anyone technically inclined is going to to assume it either means settings, configurations, or basically anything that has to do with the low level function or repair of a program. Technology is going to have to change at a real fundamental level before you no longer need a wrench. We still use bricks and nails today and those are pretty damn old. Objects like wrenches, hammers, and ladders are going to be pretty self-explanatory for some time.
What I find interesting is you missed the ones that are hardly debatable IMO:
1) Radio button... well I am kind of guessing this a radio button on a form? Cuz I have never seen a radio icon in a mainstream program... ever. If it is the form one, it makes no sense at all.
2) Calendar button. Uhhhhhh.... how else are you going to visually represent days and weeks grouped into months? Until we switch over to Stardate blah blah blah I don't see that representation changing much at all or losing its relevancy.
3) Manila folder. People still print out hard copies all the time and need to physically group these objects together. A folder makes logical sense as an object that accomplishes that in the most efficient way possible. A book, even more so. Even with the advent of ebooks and readers I don't think physical books are going to go away for another 100 years or more, and will be recognizable for what they are for hundreds of years after that. We still recognize a spear as something to shove into somebody right? A book will represent information for quite a long time.
Now will humanity actually try and build it or will humanity argue over nonsense instead?
Uhhh, just what planet do you think this is?
Or one could feed and educate the poor. Just a thought.
Awwwww... That's so sweet and noble.... but does it get us anywhere closer to beaming down to other planets and nailing hot space aliens while simultaneously carrying out foreign policy?
It's manageable by individuals, but a mob will almost certainly run
What a wonderful idea. Take a large group of people that are already agitated and experiencing "mob mentality" and cause them to stampede like frightened animals in pain.
Oh yes. That will end well with no injuries or casualties. Completely certain.
Stuff like this makes me want to just say fuck the Olympics and not spend a single damn dime supporting it. If it means I have to deal with the TSA and walking down streets protected by .50 cals and sonic cannons it is no longer interesting or fun.
That is precisely what all these dipshit politicians do not understand. By creating a police state and thoroughly removing all joy from life the terrorists have a complete victory.
I don't think it is like that anymore, not by a long shot.
The military is a closed system strictly separated from any influence on civilians. It takes extraordinary circumstances for the National Guard to be mobilized (Katrina) and especially the main branches of the military on our home soil.
To say their mindset is like that of regular law enforcement is incorrect. People don't join the military to have control over civilians, unlike many other countries, say.... like Burma or North Korea.
I might feel the way you do if I routinely see a military officer in uniform, in public, armed and giving orders to civilians. Only time in my life I have ever seen that was in airport shortly after 9/11.
Normally, you would think the guy is a fucking nut, not even in the military, and call the police.
Not a big one, by yourself, but if people in this country would stop being so defeatist, they could make a big difference in aggregate.
The problem are the choices. On one hand you have a big shaved ape that is going to take you in the corner and buttfuck you. On the other hand, you have a big shaved ape that is going to rape you in the face.
Geeee.... I wonder why so many people are just burned out and disillusioned about even making the choice?
With partisan politics being so damned bad, even the moderates that at least gave you a reach around are leaving.
Desperation is a stinky cologne.
Nobody is going to have any sympathy for you because you need to realize one simple immutable fact:
nobody wants the shit you are responsible for making. nobody. everybody hates you with the burning passion of a thousand suns. the only way for you to get advertisements in front of people is by the lack of choice .
Therefore, you are already deeply unethical in any attempt to sue somebody out of existence like Dish Network that is providing what the customer wants (Sonicblue), and deeply disturbed and sociopathic with your successful attempt to ruin television with disruptive overlays during programming.
The only way you can survive is by continuing to make sure the consumer has the lack of choice, and then you sit there with the unmitigated gall to complain when choice is provided.
Get a clue. Get a different career. I suggest Ambulance Chasing Lawyer or the guys who provide fresh meat for Hostel-like entertainment packages in Eastern European countries. You know.... something with a little more heart.
Sounds like a Kickstarter project ready to get funded.
Plus she did Your Highness so I think she is flexible on the types of projects she will do.......