He can't work there - that means they'll have to give every copy of OSX away for free! Can't they see the error of their ways? ------------------------------------------- -------
Interestingly enough, I was recently forbidden to use PGP anymore while at work. My boss said that PGP signing things confuses people who are less technical (managerial types) and has made them think I'm adversely affecting their email clients due to the random characters that appear.
One would think that SSL and SSH would be good ways to avoid snooping when "ISPs have to snoop on their own customers to ensure no one is breaking the laws of any country".
So, my question is, if encryption is illegal for citizens to use in China, and we have to follow those laws online, can your credit-card accepting website be shut down for using SSL? -------------------------------------------- ------
Doh. Forgot. Big company registers tons of domains in every possible spelling or misspelling of their name = good. Person registering a site of their own that happens to resemble a company slightly = bad.
Sheesh. Ever been to mattl.com? -------------------------------------- ------------
the Patent Office be given access to a group of
technologically-savvy individuals who could aid them in making decisions.
Hell yeah. Like how all my supervisors are always asking my opinion on hardware and machinery before they buy expensive things that they're going to ask me to make work.
Oh, wait. They never ask me. Well, poop. ------------------------------------------- -------
Depends. If you're not a member, then you should probably join and find out what they're doing about it when you get the ACLU newsletters!
If you don't join, then it's pretty unfair to expect the ACLU to fight battles you want them to fight, when you're not helping to support them. ------------------------------------------- -------
Half of your customer base is completely paranoid that your product is radiating their heads, but they still insist on using your product.
Do you:
a) Do nothing, listen to them whine.
b) "Fix" your product. Get sued when someone
"discovers" that it isn't fixed.
c) Create a shield that will "protect" the
people. If the harm doesn't really exist,
you are now profiting TWICE on the paranoid
people.
Just be sure your decimal notation is correct. I'd hate to see a trip to the Olive Garden become a trip to "Hanson Live at the Paramount" because a 4 got turned into a 5 and all. -------------------------------------------- ------
If I find it bad as a computer guy, you can't bet your bottom dollar that graphic artists are going to hate it.
That remains to be seen. The mindset of a "computer guy" and the mindset of a graphic artist are completely different.
After all, you'd laugh if I said "I find the interface and operations of Windows HORRID as a computer guy, so you can imagine how cold a response it'll get from the average joe...." ---------------------------------------- ----------
Yeah, right. If they wanted to use Netscape, wouldn't they just go out and buy Netscape, then promise to continue development even though they're reaching exclusive deals with MS?
Brilliant example of exactly how carefully phrased and worded, innocent sounding lies can completely whip up public craze. You know, ones like "Any company who uses GNU software has to give away everything else they ever write for free!".
Of course, that's only because the public is so gosh darn easy to manipulate. .. ----------------------------------------------- ---
Instead of banning video games, why not appropriate money to schools to adequately pay guidance counselors or set up after-school programs taillered to making outcasts fit in?
Though your point is made, this is a horrid example. That is called a 'Reprogramming camp' and is designed to force people who are different into a cultural norm. That, my friend, is unacceptable through and through.
Can you imagine the reaction of 99% of the slashdot audience (We're all DIFFERENT, believe me) being told, "Listen, kid, your music is too different. You've got an hour of after school each day until you learn to like the Backstreet Boys."
To this day, I laugh, because *MY* guidance counselor told me to stop playing around with computers and get back to studying my math homework. --------------------------------------- -----------
The problem with that is that there are perfectly reasonable, non paranoid scenarios in which you do NOT want your information aggregated. Using the doubleclick example:
Customer X-35213-54388 purchased speaker racks and green paint for a 1989 Mazda Miata, using static IP addres 123.456.789.101 - they used to live in Minnesota but made this purchase and all recent ones from CA.
John Q. Doe has registered, on the next day, a Green 1989 Mazda Miata in CA after having moved from Minnesota.
Static DSL IP 123.456.789.101 purchased some online porn.
Add in DoubleClick's info-aggregating and every other site you visit relates everything you've done online to:
John Q. Doe
123 Fnord Ave
San Mateo, CA, 12345
SSN: 123-33-4567
No, thanks. I'm trying to keep most of that info, especially SSN, to myself and not the skript kidz that hack the companys' website. ---------------------------------------- ----------
Don't worry, bro. Quicktime still hasn't made a viewer for Solaris or Linux, or BSD. I bet if you dont' have WinBlows, this tracking software isn't written for your OS anyways.:P ---------------------------------------------- ----
My system is always on and my cat likes to walk all over the keyboard.
Lets see what their profiling says of THAT! ------------------------------------------- -------
Hopefully they'll stick it out.
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Mandrake's a great distro. A friend of mine has a copy and his business doesn't use Linux at all. He keeps it around because it's the best way to reformat hard disks on Winblows systems without destroying the data.
My work, on the other hand, standardized on Mandrake long ago. -------------------------------------------- ------
I say that this is just symptomatic of a much bigger problem in the first place: Computer systems not having the proper amount of human oversight.
Credit bureaus rely on their use of the computing systems for pretty much everything, and look how hard it is to get any error fixed at all.
This could just as easily have been a private prison company (Which most all prisons in CA are) accidentally sending your traffic-ticket offender to a high security felon bin for 20 years instead of a 6 month stint for not paying their bills. ------------------------------------------ --------
Frankly, I'd rather have the indistry regulate itself. When the government makes mistakes in their policy, the flawed policy is still law. Not going along with the policy will result in your entry into a judicial system that's rather futile to prove "The law is wrong, not my actions".
When you rely on industry self-regulation, if a corporation decides to try to be god, you simply refuse to buy their services, and use an alternative instead.
Don't like Microsoft? Use Linux, BSD or Solaris Intel. Don't like the US Government because they try to force you to behave a certain way? Move to another country (unless they won't give you a visa). ------------------------------------------ --------
to ensure separation between its two functions. This smells kinda like Verisign becoming a for-profit government agency. Much like any other government agency these days. ------------------------------------------- -------
This is a pretty good idea. Sure, some people will probably write things on the board that others will find offensive, but that's part of free speech. Besides, in my city, people *graffiti* offensive speech all over the place.
The speech will be there. Might as well let people use chalk and a board, and encourage it!
I found the quote interesting as well. "After all, if the first amendment were up for a vote today, it might not pass". Scary, but true. ------------------------------------------- -------
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He can't work there - that means they'll have to give every copy of OSX away for free! Can't they see the error of their ways?- -------
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Interestingly enough, I was recently forbidden to use PGP anymore while at work. My boss said that PGP signing things confuses people who are less technical (managerial types) and has made them think I'm adversely affecting their email clients due to the random characters that appear.
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Damn managerial types.
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One would think that SSL and SSH would be good ways to avoid snooping when "ISPs have to snoop on their own customers to ensure no one is breaking the laws of any country".
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So, my question is, if encryption is illegal for citizens to use in China, and we have to follow those laws online, can your credit-card accepting website be shut down for using SSL?
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But I thought cybersquatting was illegal...
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Doh. Forgot. Big company registers tons of domains in every possible spelling or misspelling of their name = good. Person registering a site of their own that happens to resemble a company slightly = bad.
Sheesh. Ever been to mattl.com?
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the Patent Office be given access to a group of technologically-savvy individuals who could aid them in making decisions.
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Hell yeah. Like how all my supervisors are always asking my opinion on hardware and machinery before they buy expensive things that they're going to ask me to make work.
Oh, wait. They never ask me. Well, poop.
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You've slashdotted the NSA!
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You bastards!
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Depends. If you're not a member, then you should probably join and find out what they're doing about it when you get the ACLU newsletters!
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If you don't join, then it's pretty unfair to expect the ACLU to fight battles you want them to fight, when you're not helping to support them.
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Half of your customer base is completely paranoid that your product is radiating their heads, but they still insist on using your product.
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Do you:
a) Do nothing, listen to them whine. b) "Fix" your product. Get sued when someone "discovers" that it isn't fixed. c) Create a shield that will "protect" the people. If the harm doesn't really exist, you are now profiting TWICE on the paranoid people.
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Just be sure your decimal notation is correct. I'd hate to see a trip to the Olive Garden become a trip to "Hanson Live at the Paramount" because a 4 got turned into a 5 and all.- ------
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If I find it bad as a computer guy, you can't bet your bottom dollar that graphic artists are going to hate it.
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That remains to be seen. The mindset of a "computer guy" and the mindset of a graphic artist are completely different.
After all, you'd laugh if I said "I find the interface and operations of Windows HORRID as a computer guy, so you can imagine how cold a response it'll get from the average joe...."
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Yeah, right. If they wanted to use Netscape, wouldn't they just go out and buy Netscape, then promise to continue development even though they're reaching exclusive deals with MS?
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Oh, yeah.... Tried that once. heh.
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Brilliant example of exactly how carefully phrased and worded, innocent sounding lies can completely whip up public craze. You know, ones like "Any company who uses GNU software has to give away everything else they ever write for free!".
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Of course, that's only because the public is so gosh darn easy to manipulate. .
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Apparently as confused as ICANN itself;
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appointed to the ICANN board when it was created nearly more than two years ago.
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It's tough for Federal computers to be THAT covert; whichever computers they hacked into in the first place probably said this:
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U.S. GOVERNMENT COMPUTER
If you are not authorized to access this
system, disconnect now.
YOU SHOULD HAVE NO EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY
By continuing, you consent to your
keystrokes and data content
being monitored.
Seems pretty straight forward to me.
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Instead of banning video games, why not appropriate money to schools to adequately pay guidance counselors or set up after-school programs taillered to making outcasts fit in?
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Though your point is made, this is a horrid example. That is called a 'Reprogramming camp' and is designed to force people who are different into a cultural norm. That, my friend, is unacceptable through and through.
Can you imagine the reaction of 99% of the slashdot audience (We're all DIFFERENT, believe me) being told, "Listen, kid, your music is too different. You've got an hour of after school each day until you learn to like the Backstreet Boys."
To this day, I laugh, because *MY* guidance counselor told me to stop playing around with computers and get back to studying my math homework.
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The problem with that is that there are perfectly reasonable, non paranoid scenarios in which you do NOT want your information aggregated. Using the doubleclick example:
- ----------
Customer X-35213-54388 purchased speaker racks and green paint for a 1989 Mazda Miata, using static IP addres 123.456.789.101 - they used to live in Minnesota but made this purchase and all recent ones from CA.
John Q. Doe has registered, on the next day, a Green 1989 Mazda Miata in CA after having moved from Minnesota.
Static DSL IP 123.456.789.101 purchased some online porn.
Add in DoubleClick's info-aggregating and every other site you visit relates everything you've done online to:
John Q. Doe
123 Fnord Ave
San Mateo, CA, 12345
SSN: 123-33-4567
No, thanks. I'm trying to keep most of that info, especially SSN, to myself and not the skript kidz that hack the companys' website.
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If you don't pay to use their service, you're not a customer.- -----------
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"Welcome! The government's got your mail!"- --------
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Don't worry, bro. Quicktime still hasn't made a viewer for Solaris or Linux, or BSD. I bet if you dont' have WinBlows, this tracking software isn't written for your OS anyways. :P- ----
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My system is always on and my cat likes to walk all over the keyboard.
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Lets see what their profiling says of THAT!
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Mandrake's a great distro. A friend of mine has a copy and his business doesn't use Linux at all. He keeps it around because it's the best way to reformat hard disks on Winblows systems without destroying the data.
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My work, on the other hand, standardized on Mandrake long ago.
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I say that this is just symptomatic of a much bigger problem in the first place: Computer systems not having the proper amount of human oversight.
- --------
Credit bureaus rely on their use of the computing systems for pretty much everything, and look how hard it is to get any error fixed at all.
This could just as easily have been a private prison company (Which most all prisons in CA are) accidentally sending your traffic-ticket offender to a high security felon bin for 20 years instead of a 6 month stint for not paying their bills.
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Frankly, I'd rather have the indistry regulate itself. When the government makes mistakes in their policy, the flawed policy is still law. Not going along with the policy will result in your entry into a judicial system that's rather futile to prove "The law is wrong, not my actions".
- --------
When you rely on industry self-regulation, if a corporation decides to try to be god, you simply refuse to buy their services, and use an alternative instead.
Don't like Microsoft? Use Linux, BSD or Solaris Intel. Don't like the US Government because they try to force you to behave a certain way? Move to another country (unless they won't give you a visa).
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to ensure separation between its two functions. This smells kinda like Verisign becoming a for-profit government agency. Much like any other government agency these days.- -------
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This is a pretty good idea. Sure, some people will probably write things on the board that others will find offensive, but that's part of free speech. Besides, in my city, people *graffiti* offensive speech all over the place.
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The speech will be there. Might as well let people use chalk and a board, and encourage it!
I found the quote interesting as well. "After all, if the first amendment were up for a vote today, it might not pass". Scary, but true.
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