Sorry, sir, vista's search is so terrible that it prompted me to select and purchase 3rd party searching software (FileLocator pro) for the first time in my life. I have noticed a steady degradation in the quality of text search results from windows 2000 onward.
Why should there be any limit on which data you permit them to collect? Many folks intentionally choose to let some of their data be tracked. Anyway, that information has value, and possibly value exceeding the value to you of your privacy. Would you deny the economy that nutrient?
I am not really qualified to discuss privacy policies in the states. Contrary to what you might believe from my refusal to tell anyone my new addresses, (which is actually just a refusal to be hassled into telling people things they shouldnt and apparently DONT need to know) I don't really care about my privacy and don't pay attention to the policies ^_^
I will just say that you can find people that are so unconcerned with privacy that it will amaze you. And you can find people so paranoid about it that it will amaze you. There is quite a spectrum, but I suspect that the folks around me dont spend much time at all thinking about it unless they have something dire to keep secret.
well, as long as we're talking about america: 1. Or get a check and have it cashed. Or deposit it in an account with the wrong address. 2. Who needs a correct address to file taxes? As long as you can get your mail. 3. Or renew it with a bogus or old address 4. wha..? traveling far? why not? 5. yeah thats a good idea. Dont register your handguns. Though I've no doubt you can do that with an incorrect address also.
You get caught, you pay fines. A few euros? No big deal, even if it happens a few times. I dont get caught. It can be done.
The real issue is the stuff you cant do without a SSN or birth certificate. I dont know of good legal ways around those. But the address is not a problem.
You have a good point, and one counterexample doesnt mean anything, but you might be interested: 1. Drivers license from a different state with an ancient address. 2. Employer has an old address. They hand me my income tax papers directly 3. So what if I don't register for the draft?
But the voting thing bugs me. If it werent for that, nobody would be able to track me down. You cant be addressless but there isnt anything vital that requires an actual correct address for you. What happens if you lie? Oh I used to live there and forgot to change it; oh my parents used to live there; oh thats my girlfriends address. The man can't do anything about it.
Alright, you win. But heres a reason: analog works reliably out in the country where my parents live, and digital doesnt. When my father's truck breaks down way back in the woods and his cell phone doesnt work until he treks 5 miles to the highway, I am a little irritated.
Clearly you have never been on the receiving end of this. You will never be as pissed off again in your life as when they kick you out at the door and make you walk back to your car to drop off your phone and then come all the way back.,
just make a pledge:
As a software developer or pointy haired type, I swear that I will never make a decision that will actively add lock-in into my product without making a tangible improvement to the product. This pledge does not obligate me to go out of my way to embrace standards or interoperability but just to do my citizenly duty to play fair with my users and competitors and to refuse to kill standards or interoperability that naturally find their way into the software.
Freedom is good, bottom line be damned, and I will fight for it.
Go right ahead and assert that all you want. Some of us call it bunk.
I can assert too: never attribute to malice what you can attribute to stupidity. Either they are stupid, in calls for data collection, thinking that it will improve security. Or YOU are stupid, and the data collection will actually improve security.
Just a factor working in the other direction: wouldnt one be more tempted to shoot first and ask questions later if our own soldiers lives were on the line? We WANT to fight as ethical a war as possible given the constraints of not wanting to lose too many of our own lives. (not everyone necessarily wants that). If our lives are not on the line, that actually relieves some of the burden of having to protect our own and should actually make things safer for civilians on the other side.
Having these abilities also gives us the potential to make more strikes than we otherwise would be able to with only human soldiers.. giving us the ability to create more victories than we otherwise wouldve. Not that more victories will necessarily eventually result in total victory.. but one tries where one can.
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Sorry, sir, vista's search is so terrible that it prompted me to select and purchase 3rd party searching software (FileLocator pro) for the first time in my life. I have noticed a steady degradation in the quality of text search results from windows 2000 onward.
Why should there be any limit on which data you permit them to collect? Many folks intentionally choose to let some of their data be tracked. Anyway, that information has value, and possibly value exceeding the value to you of your privacy. Would you deny the economy that nutrient?
I am not really qualified to discuss privacy policies in the states. Contrary to what you might believe from my refusal to tell anyone my new addresses, (which is actually just a refusal to be hassled into telling people things they shouldnt and apparently DONT need to know) I don't really care about my privacy and don't pay attention to the policies ^_^
I will just say that you can find people that are so unconcerned with privacy that it will amaze you. And you can find people so paranoid about it that it will amaze you. There is quite a spectrum, but I suspect that the folks around me dont spend much time at all thinking about it unless they have something dire to keep secret.
well, as long as we're talking about america:
1. Or get a check and have it cashed. Or deposit it in an account with the wrong address.
2. Who needs a correct address to file taxes? As long as you can get your mail.
3. Or renew it with a bogus or old address
4. wha..? traveling far? why not?
5. yeah thats a good idea. Dont register your handguns. Though I've no doubt you can do that with an incorrect address also.
You get caught, you pay fines. A few euros? No big deal, even if it happens a few times. I dont get caught. It can be done.
The real issue is the stuff you cant do without a SSN or birth certificate. I dont know of good legal ways around those. But the address is not a problem.
You have a good point, and one counterexample doesnt mean anything, but you might be interested:
1. Drivers license from a different state with an ancient address.
2. Employer has an old address. They hand me my income tax papers directly
3. So what if I don't register for the draft?
But the voting thing bugs me. If it werent for that, nobody would be able to track me down. You cant be addressless but there isnt anything vital that requires an actual correct address for you. What happens if you lie? Oh I used to live there and forgot to change it; oh my parents used to live there; oh thats my girlfriends address. The man can't do anything about it.
I only need more carriers with taller towers and bigger cells because theyre all digital. The problem is digital. The solution is analog.
Alright, you win. But heres a reason: analog works reliably out in the country where my parents live, and digital doesnt. When my father's truck breaks down way back in the woods and his cell phone doesnt work until he treks 5 miles to the highway, I am a little irritated.
Clearly you have never been on the receiving end of this. You will never be as pissed off again in your life as when they kick you out at the door and make you walk back to your car to drop off your phone and then come all the way back.,
just make a pledge: As a software developer or pointy haired type, I swear that I will never make a decision that will actively add lock-in into my product without making a tangible improvement to the product. This pledge does not obligate me to go out of my way to embrace standards or interoperability but just to do my citizenly duty to play fair with my users and competitors and to refuse to kill standards or interoperability that naturally find their way into the software. Freedom is good, bottom line be damned, and I will fight for it.
Go right ahead and assert that all you want. Some of us call it bunk. I can assert too: never attribute to malice what you can attribute to stupidity. Either they are stupid, in calls for data collection, thinking that it will improve security. Or YOU are stupid, and the data collection will actually improve security.
Just a factor working in the other direction: wouldnt one be more tempted to shoot first and ask questions later if our own soldiers lives were on the line? We WANT to fight as ethical a war as possible given the constraints of not wanting to lose too many of our own lives. (not everyone necessarily wants that). If our lives are not on the line, that actually relieves some of the burden of having to protect our own and should actually make things safer for civilians on the other side. Having these abilities also gives us the potential to make more strikes than we otherwise would be able to with only human soldiers.. giving us the ability to create more victories than we otherwise wouldve. Not that more victories will necessarily eventually result in total victory.. but one tries where one can.