Well done. If profits are all that matter, then corporations are all that matter.
During the hours of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, taxis and other cart drivers were charging enormous sums of money to carry people and their goods away from the fire. They would then drive a block or two, and dump the cargo and order people off - and return and repeat. Robbery - free market robbery.
Until, according to one eyewitness, a passenger pulled a revolver out of his coat, pointed it at the driver, and told him to carry them out, as agreed, or die on the spot. The Free Market died at the instance, and the people got away.
Not only the vicious lies the drivers told, and got away with, were the evil here. The point is they were charging people hundreds to get away in the first place. A free market paradise, in what Naomi Klein calls the Shock Doctrine mode, will rob you down to the bare bones and dump you on the side of the road, possibly alive if they've no time to finish you off, anytime a fire or a volcano or a tsunami hits. Ask the people in New Orleans who are still trying to get their property back.
There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Market. In its pure form, those who have money have an overwhelming information advantage over the common schmuck, and will always win more money. We are seeing what happens in a real world experiment in the US right now, when wealth absorption becomes an infinite curve.
There MUST be a balance between what a goods producer can charge and what a common human can pay, or else we are all mostly be doomed to living in Styrofoam boxes some day, when rents become ten thousand a month for your average studio. That balance cannot be supplied by a free market in the real world, because such a market is impossible. The wealthy control information, prices, costs, media, their own government officials - you can't beat them at that game. They have to be controlled, by force, at some point, because they do not recognize limits. Or science, for that matter. Only immediate advantage.
China is the ultimate capitalist paradise. You'd like it there. If you're rich. If not, well, get ready to work twelve hour days and sleep in a room with seven other people for the rest of your life. The worker's paradise. As visualized by Ayn Rand, I guess.
Our browser engines will now become secrets. Cracking those secrets will be a felony worldwide. This is the end of the world wide web. The network is now a commercial sanctuary, guarded by businesses for businesses.
I never understood why banks and such were even allowed to be on the web. It was obvious then, and now, insanely obvious, that they would envelope and digest the protocol, and make it their own. They should have stayed on their own closed lines. The web was not designed for secrets.
Well, then, if they build it, and it works, then the debate is done. If they can't, the debate is done. The best argument is a working engine. Let's see if they can do it.
If we are ever getting off this death trap before the next killer asteroid whacks us, we need lateral thinking. Good to know someone is trying something new, instead of recycling 1960's rocket designs. Rockets just aren't going to cut it. There's a loophole in the rules somewhere, and eventually, slowly, painfully, we will find it.
Probably won't be Americans that do it. We are too in love with our old successes. When we visualize radical change, it usually involves self-parking cars. Weird solutions will come from people who have no past to gaze back on.
They ain't laws of physics, they're just rough guidelines. We're not through warping the universe just yet. Just 'cause it doesn't exist doesn't mean it can't. The universe didn't have smart tweaky bags of carbon trying to change things before.
They have been saying "one system, one exploit!" for over eleven years now - and OS X still stands, unbroken, a Unix with a happy face on.
iOS has been out for five years, and still stands, unbroken.
You have to concede at some point that Apple built unbreakable OSes. Sure, at some time in the future, quantum computers could crack all the locks. And an asteroid absolutely must hit at some point and kill us all. But. Windows exploits number in the millions, Android is barely keeping clean - they are demonstrably broken.
If you want a clean Android phone, get the Google Nexus 4 - it's updated by the originator of the standard, who has a market to uphold.
As for Windows- my God. I won't let a Win box on my network. It's Patient Zero through Ten Million.
Cattlemen in the US graze on public lands. Those are commons. Commons is an ancient principle. Private ownership of tiny plots of land is rather rare in history.
But the fact remains - letting the banks fail and jailing the bankers worked, and worked big. The countries which slashed spending, sold their citizen's property to international investors, and bailed out the banks collapsed into depression.
Iceland didn't bail out their thieves - they voted nationwide not to do what the Very Serious People believed they should have done, which was to slash spending and bail out their thieves, lending Confidence to the International Investors Who Would Provide Jobs.
Instead, they let the banks fail, and refused to provide a penny to the international investors who wanted a bailout. And they are jailing their thieves.
And guess what! They are the only recovering economy in Europe. They are BOOMING. The Very Serious Chicago School Economists were dead. Wrong.
I approve. Hell, it's one of my pet ideas. Simple! Take a bit of TV frequency, and let people use it for wifi, just as they do now. Except that it goes through walls. Buildings. Neighborhoods. Set up the ol' mesh network idea with a frequency band that actually works, and you have ISP independence. The bandwidth of a TV channel is huge, so streaming video might even work on a shared network such as this. If we ever lick the "interference" problem, which is a software limitation, not a physical one, we could transform the world. No hyperbole. Add encryption, and the old internet is back, baby.
No proof. No evidence. No names, just you gone. No penalties for lying - and who would you penalize? Some third party security company that won't name themselves?
Schools are basically jails, and train kids to accept prison conditions - look at it objectively. Tracking devices in the phones. Recorded calls, recorded messages, emails. Soon, tracking built into the computers in cars, unkillable. Ebooks recorded, times, dates. Anything that flows in packets, recorded. Your movements, recorded, even if you ditch a phone and a car, 'cause cameras will watch you - and listen, too. The cameras and trackers and mics are shrinking, and with zero societal will to stop it, will be everywhere.
Yes, this generation. It starts in the schools, the acceptance of strip searches, phone tracking, drug searches, notebooks with cameras that watch the student... come on, the new crop of adults have been in jail since they were born, figuratively, and have been trained to accept it.
The next generation? Just keep exponentially increasing the surveillance, and the acceptance. Police states are not, historically speaking, unwelcome. People trade freedom for safety all the time, always have, if they are scared properly. The few who become bullied and targeted by the people behind the cameras and trackers are not interesting to people. "They" are by definition criminals, anyway.
I ain't afraid of evil bastards half as much as I am afraid of a population that doesn't understand what freedom actually means, and what they give up to be "safe". They has been zero effective backpush against this era, and it will get worse.
Because the world should not be a police state run for the express purpose of making sure someone isn't reading a book or watching a movie or listening to a song without permission. We did not build this world for that. The "copyright" crimes hurt no one. The police state... that is the ultimate evil, the last evil, the evil that eats all the freedoms we could ever have, because without the right, the ability to read, or think, or speak without Secret Father, Yahweh of the Internet, taking down your name and activity in the Great Book for use in any sort of case anyone might want to build against you, at any time, for any reason... without privacy, you are a fool and a prisoner and a joke of a human being, a toy for the tyrants that are here now and their successors, who will not be looking for your records of watching movies, but for seditious or anti-corporate, anti-authoritarian thought of any sort. Without that, no government, no corrupt cop, no black-hearted corporation or combination of all three will ever face a threat that they won't have warning of. Programs will monitor everything Johnny reads, watches, says, or hell, someday even thinks, and they will at their earliest ability set flags for those who watch so they can nip rebellion in the blood. Ask Occupy. They were monitored before they even existed.
With total awareness comes the total police state. The last one.
So, everyone has to sit outside, start naked, their hands in front of them where the police can see them, and speak clearly into the cameras forever... or they are guilty.
Deep packet inspection, volume of data, targets and returned IP addresses... will a securely tunneled and encrypted connection to a proxy service thwart this monitoring - or will they simply use such as indirect evidence of torrenting, since the standards of such evidence are set by the MPAA/RIAA?
As for commercial proxies - how probable is it that such services are more-or-less instantly compromised - as in a visit from FBI agents conscripted to work for movie companies ? Whom do you trust to manage connections?
How does one pay for such connections, if the act of using a credit card automatically locks down your identity? Does the use of pre-paid money cards such as Vanilla work (if you buy them from someone who doesn't care much about taking your real name down)? I understand that many say they do not, but other posters have mentioned that one merely has to provide Vanilla a zip code on the registration page to make them usable to pay online services.
I'd do all the above just to watch Netflix. I'm that much of a bastard. We managed to use the postal system and phones for over a hundred years without a spy system reading our every word and listening to every call, and I don't see why we need to start now. Especially now that ATT is about to shut off the old phone system and go completely IP, which means the old laws mean nothing.
And for the generation who never knew privacy, I preemptively say: yes, it matters. It is sad you may never care or even understand why it does. Your are happy goldfish, exhibits in a zoo. Think about who is outside your bowl, watching. You've spent your lives being told to be afraid of strange adults and white vans - yet you let actual, secret versions of those kinds of people follow your every move and listen to your lives? Think about it. The creeps you've been told to fear your entire lives aren't really real, for the most part. The creeps who are locking down human existence, building the last and only secret police the world will ever need - they are real and they are here and you need to fight them.
Solution: don't use radio to start cars. Subject to jamming, hacking, and multiple failure points.
Car engineering is ass backwards. We should be simplifying, not growing the complexity. Elegance is better than more tech. Minimal number of components to do a task.
Mechanical mechanisms for opening windows and doors, for instance. The Aptera, before the auto exec took over and ruined it, went one step farther and didn't let the windows open at all - it was a door. Zero failure.
Engines should be electric, have as few moving parts as possible, and efficiency should be much better than the 17% or so gas engines provide. And so on and on.
"She is a homeland to a people whom the world hates because they dare present to humanity (brace yourselves) MORALITY"
The Palestinians? Never thought of it that way before. Thanks. Yeah, they are Semites, ain't they? We should stop being so anti-Semitic...
Waiting for the pre-4000 BC Ebla-ites to stake their claim. After all, they were there before anyone else. Plenty of descendants about, mostly Palestinian, I'd imagine. Prior possession is 100% of the law, ya know. Might be some Neaderthals or Cro-Magnon claimaints, too. There's been people in that once-fertile land for over twelve thousand years. Probably hundreds of thousands. Maybe a half million years, depending on how you define homo sapiens.
The land is a mined-out, farmed-out dessicated near-wasteland of the not-so-real. It's been peopled to death.
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Banks and entertainment giants. "And such". It was originally a longer list, but I'm trying to self-edit my wordiness.
The entertainment giants had cable - dedicated lines. They should have stayed there. Once they get into the standards, we've lost the open web.
Freedom, when it comes to such as browser code, is an absolute. You cannot be just a little bit unfree.
Well done. If profits are all that matter, then corporations are all that matter.
During the hours of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, taxis and other cart drivers were charging enormous sums of money to carry people and their goods away from the fire. They would then drive a block or two, and dump the cargo and order people off - and return and repeat. Robbery - free market robbery.
Until, according to one eyewitness, a passenger pulled a revolver out of his coat, pointed it at the driver, and told him to carry them out, as agreed, or die on the spot. The Free Market died at the instance, and the people got away.
Not only the vicious lies the drivers told, and got away with, were the evil here. The point is they were charging people hundreds to get away in the first place. A free market paradise, in what Naomi Klein calls the Shock Doctrine mode, will rob you down to the bare bones and dump you on the side of the road, possibly alive if they've no time to finish you off, anytime a fire or a volcano or a tsunami hits. Ask the people in New Orleans who are still trying to get their property back.
There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Market. In its pure form, those who have money have an overwhelming information advantage over the common schmuck, and will always win more money. We are seeing what happens in a real world experiment in the US right now, when wealth absorption becomes an infinite curve.
There MUST be a balance between what a goods producer can charge and what a common human can pay, or else we are all mostly be doomed to living in Styrofoam boxes some day, when rents become ten thousand a month for your average studio. That balance cannot be supplied by a free market in the real world, because such a market is impossible. The wealthy control information, prices, costs, media, their own government officials - you can't beat them at that game. They have to be controlled, by force, at some point, because they do not recognize limits. Or science, for that matter. Only immediate advantage.
China is the ultimate capitalist paradise. You'd like it there. If you're rich. If not, well, get ready to work twelve hour days and sleep in a room with seven other people for the rest of your life. The worker's paradise. As visualized by Ayn Rand, I guess.
Our browser engines will now become secrets. Cracking those secrets will be a felony worldwide.
This is the end of the world wide web. The network is now a commercial sanctuary, guarded by businesses for businesses.
I never understood why banks and such were even allowed to be on the web. It was obvious then, and now, insanely obvious, that they would envelope and digest the protocol, and make it their own. They should have stayed on their own closed lines. The web was not designed for secrets.
Except now, it will be.
Well, then, if they build it, and it works, then the debate is done. If they can't, the debate is done. The best argument is a working engine. Let's see if they can do it.
If we are ever getting off this death trap before the next killer asteroid whacks us, we need lateral thinking. Good to know someone is trying something new, instead of recycling 1960's rocket designs. Rockets just aren't going to cut it. There's a loophole in the rules somewhere, and eventually, slowly, painfully, we will find it.
Probably won't be Americans that do it. We are too in love with our old successes. When we visualize radical change, it usually involves self-parking cars. Weird solutions will come from people who have no past to gaze back on.
They ain't laws of physics, they're just rough guidelines. We're not through warping the universe just yet. Just 'cause it doesn't exist doesn't mean it can't. The universe didn't have smart tweaky bags of carbon trying to change things before.
They have been saying "one system, one exploit!" for over eleven years now - and OS X still stands, unbroken, a Unix with a happy face on.
iOS has been out for five years, and still stands, unbroken.
You have to concede at some point that Apple built unbreakable OSes. Sure, at some time in the future, quantum computers could crack all the locks. And an asteroid absolutely must hit at some point and kill us all. But. Windows exploits number in the millions, Android is barely keeping clean - they are demonstrably broken.
If you want a clean Android phone, get the Google Nexus 4 - it's updated by the originator of the standard, who has a market to uphold.
As for Windows- my God. I won't let a Win box on my network. It's Patient Zero through Ten Million.
Cattlemen in the US graze on public lands. Those are commons. Commons is an ancient principle. Private ownership of tiny plots of land is rather rare in history.
But the fact remains - letting the banks fail and jailing the bankers worked, and worked big. The countries which slashed spending, sold their citizen's property to international investors, and bailed out the banks collapsed into depression.
Iceland didn't bail out their thieves - they voted nationwide not to do what the Very Serious People believed they should have done, which was to slash spending and bail out their thieves, lending Confidence to the International Investors Who Would Provide Jobs.
Instead, they let the banks fail, and refused to provide a penny to the international investors who wanted a bailout. And they are jailing their thieves.
And guess what! They are the only recovering economy in Europe. They are BOOMING. The Very Serious Chicago School Economists were dead. Wrong.
Let them fail.
I approve. Hell, it's one of my pet ideas. Simple! Take a bit of TV frequency, and let people use it for wifi, just as they do now. Except that it goes through walls. Buildings. Neighborhoods. Set up the ol' mesh network idea with a frequency band that actually works, and you have ISP independence. The bandwidth of a TV channel is huge, so streaming video might even work on a shared network such as this. If we ever lick the "interference" problem, which is a software limitation, not a physical one, we could transform the world. No hyperbole. Add encryption, and the old internet is back, baby.
Is your collective Puritan hatred of freeloaders really worth turning the entire internet into a police state?
Yup.
No proof. No evidence. No names, just you gone. No penalties for lying - and who would you penalize? Some third party security company that won't name themselves?
What they've always wanted.
Next step: encryption violates terms of service.
This is about power, not movies. To monitor the internet is to control everyone, eventually. We will have to be Good Children, for ever and all.
The current one. And the next one.
Schools are basically jails, and train kids to accept prison conditions - look at it objectively. Tracking devices in the phones. Recorded calls, recorded messages, emails. Soon, tracking built into the computers in cars, unkillable. Ebooks recorded, times, dates. Anything that flows in packets, recorded. Your movements, recorded, even if you ditch a phone and a car, 'cause cameras will watch you - and listen, too. The cameras and trackers and mics are shrinking, and with zero societal will to stop it, will be everywhere.
Yes, this generation. It starts in the schools, the acceptance of strip searches, phone tracking, drug searches, notebooks with cameras that watch the student... come on, the new crop of adults have been in jail since they were born, figuratively, and have been trained to accept it.
The next generation? Just keep exponentially increasing the surveillance, and the acceptance. Police states are not, historically speaking, unwelcome. People trade freedom for safety all the time, always have, if they are scared properly. The few who become bullied and targeted by the people behind the cameras and trackers are not interesting to people. "They" are by definition criminals, anyway.
I ain't afraid of evil bastards half as much as I am afraid of a population that doesn't understand what freedom actually means, and what they give up to be "safe". They has been zero effective backpush against this era, and it will get worse.
Because the world should not be a police state run for the express purpose of making sure someone isn't reading a book or watching a movie or listening to a song without permission. We did not build this world for that. The "copyright" crimes hurt no one. The police state... that is the ultimate evil, the last evil, the evil that eats all the freedoms we could ever have, because without the right, the ability to read, or think, or speak without Secret Father, Yahweh of the Internet, taking down your name and activity in the Great Book for use in any sort of case anyone might want to build against you, at any time, for any reason... without privacy, you are a fool and a prisoner and a joke of a human being, a toy for the tyrants that are here now and their successors, who will not be looking for your records of watching movies, but for seditious or anti-corporate, anti-authoritarian thought of any sort. Without that, no government, no corrupt cop, no black-hearted corporation or combination of all three will ever face a threat that they won't have warning of. Programs will monitor everything Johnny reads, watches, says, or hell, someday even thinks, and they will at their earliest ability set flags for those who watch so they can nip rebellion in the blood. Ask Occupy. They were monitored before they even existed.
With total awareness comes the total police state. The last one.
So, everyone has to sit outside, start naked, their hands in front of them where the police can see them, and speak clearly into the cameras forever... or they are guilty.
No.
Deep packet inspection, volume of data, targets and returned IP addresses... will a securely tunneled and encrypted connection to a proxy service thwart this monitoring - or will they simply use such as indirect evidence of torrenting, since the standards of such evidence are set by the MPAA/RIAA?
As for commercial proxies - how probable is it that such services are more-or-less instantly compromised - as in a visit from FBI agents conscripted to work for movie companies ? Whom do you trust to manage connections?
How does one pay for such connections, if the act of using a credit card automatically locks down your identity? Does the use of pre-paid money cards such as Vanilla work (if you buy them from someone who doesn't care much about taking your real name down)? I understand that many say they do not, but other posters have mentioned that one merely has to provide Vanilla a zip code on the registration page to make them usable to pay online services.
I'd do all the above just to watch Netflix. I'm that much of a bastard. We managed to use the postal system and phones for over a hundred years without a spy system reading our every word and listening to every call, and I don't see why we need to start now. Especially now that ATT is about to shut off the old phone system and go completely IP, which means the old laws mean nothing.
And for the generation who never knew privacy, I preemptively say: yes, it matters. It is sad you may never care or even understand why it does. Your are happy goldfish, exhibits in a zoo. Think about who is outside your bowl, watching. You've spent your lives being told to be afraid of strange adults and white vans - yet you let actual, secret versions of those kinds of people follow your every move and listen to your lives? Think about it. The creeps you've been told to fear your entire lives aren't really real, for the most part. The creeps who are locking down human existence, building the last and only secret police the world will ever need - they are real and they are here and you need to fight them.
Esta puta, not este. And, like the previous poster noted, you're a United Statesian human.
But the number of mutant fireproof spiders now climbing.
It's not even in effect yet, FoxNewsboy.
No force necessary. America's John Galts enjoy writing those rules.
Better a million die of plague, than one man get away with Galt's money on false pretenses.
You'd have to stay home until your symptoms disappear, as you're contagious the entire time. Not even the most liberal workplace would allow that.
And it might kill millions, some day, our addiction to "productivity". One bad virus plus our right-to-work culture will equal one mighty epidemic.
How is an online pre-calc course worth 1400? Solve.
Solution: don't use radio to start cars. Subject to jamming, hacking, and multiple failure points.
Car engineering is ass backwards. We should be simplifying, not growing the complexity. Elegance is better than more tech. Minimal number of components to do a task.
Mechanical mechanisms for opening windows and doors, for instance. The Aptera, before the auto exec took over and ruined it, went one step farther and didn't let the windows open at all - it was a door. Zero failure.
Engines should be electric, have as few moving parts as possible, and efficiency should be much better than the 17% or so gas engines provide. And so on and on.
Cheaper, too!
"She is a homeland to a people whom the world hates because they dare present to humanity (brace yourselves) MORALITY"
The Palestinians? Never thought of it that way before. Thanks. Yeah, they are Semites, ain't they? We should stop being so anti-Semitic...
Waiting for the pre-4000 BC Ebla-ites to stake their claim. After all, they were there before anyone else. Plenty of descendants about, mostly Palestinian, I'd imagine. Prior possession is 100% of the law, ya know. Might be some Neaderthals or Cro-Magnon claimaints, too. There's been people in that once-fertile land for over twelve thousand years. Probably hundreds of thousands. Maybe a half million years, depending on how you define homo sapiens.
The land is a mined-out, farmed-out dessicated near-wasteland of the not-so-real. It's been peopled to death.