are you going to trust these particular coders to make absolutely bug free code which accounts for every single inevitability
Yes, we trust them! These are the same people who made other flawless systems like the Auto No-fly generator, the Terrorist-rating system, the No American Left Unbugged Surveillance program, and the Diebold We Vote for You system. These are highly skilled IT professionals whose work is proven perfect. There are no false positives. The computer is your friend. Trust the computer.
I think you've got it backward. I believe the law was intended to lock us into the distribution streams and content control of the OLD millennium to protect the media companies who profit from those streams and from that control.
Just like every other lawsuit and piece of legislation they've fought for since they started doing business.
if we (the people of the United States) don't use our right to vote this year and in 2008 to shake up those who imposed these draconian "solutions" to terrorism, well, shame on us all.
I just deleted a long rant about how you guys are screwed due to your two-party system and my belief that they are both terrible choices. On my second try I ended up itemizing all the things I think are wrong with both parties. The third try was just frothing anger.
So I took a little break and think I feel better now. The bottom line is I feel bad for you Americans. No matter who the two parties choose to be the leaders, you're faced with choosing between the "power-crazed warmonger" party and the "weakly protesting but almost completely ineffectual" party.
Hell, even when I'm trying to *not* rant, some of the froth comes through. Amazing how strongly your country's political problems can polarize people. Even the ones (like me) that can't vote
Good luck guys. I think it's going to get worse before it gets better.
I don't think the people who make the laws care about the consumers very much. I suspect they care more about the large companies and lobbyists that donate money and perks.
just put it on a very small USB thumbdrive on your keychain. Plug it into whatever computer you're using and browse the thumbdrive. Double click and go -- no need to worry about leaving personal information on your friend's computer.
You had better encrypt that thumbdrive in case the computer owner slurps all the data off it while it's plugged in.
In one of the DVD commentaries, Joss said that they did their best to use modern street Chinese as spoken in Taiwan (? Hong Kong?) using everyday slang and swearing.
Perhaps the reason it's so hard to understand is because it's from a different region than yourself and/or non-fluent actors reading from a phonetic script?
Not understanding any Chinese other than "San Yut Fi Doh" and "Sheh sheh" (sp?) I think I'll be bookmarking your site:-)
Which works great when you're spying on individual suspects. This wiretap program seems to be spying on everybody. There's no way the secret courts can handle that kind of paperwork.
I prefer to call it "Digital Restriction Management" since IMO, what they're really doing is restricting my access to the $whatever and it keeps the acronym intact
So now "not helping the government" is a crime in and of itself?
Yes. Inaction, i.e. not actively helping the government, has now become a federal crime with a potential death sentence. (If the government says you are a terrorist)
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Yes. The same way everyone's up in arms about cameras all over the place.
And then some really cool kid says "Mashup" and "Risk" ... at the same time
(It really was Risk for a while... then Hasbro told him to go fsck himself)
are you going to trust these particular coders to make absolutely bug free code which accounts for every single inevitability
Yes, we trust them! These are the same people who made other flawless systems like the Auto No-fly generator, the Terrorist-rating system, the No American Left Unbugged Surveillance program, and the Diebold We Vote for You system. These are highly skilled IT professionals whose work is proven perfect.
There are no false positives.
The computer is your friend. Trust the computer.
I think you've got it backward. I believe the law was intended to lock us into the distribution streams and content control of the OLD millennium to protect the media companies who profit from those streams and from that control.
Just like every other lawsuit and piece of legislation they've fought for since they started doing business.
Yeah, but China's courts don't have the power to tell ICANN to wipe you off the net.
if we (the people of the United States) don't use our right to vote this year and in 2008 to shake up those who imposed these draconian "solutions" to terrorism, well, shame on us all.
I just deleted a long rant about how you guys are screwed due to your two-party system and my belief that they are both terrible choices. On my second try I ended up itemizing all the things I think are wrong with both parties. The third try was just frothing anger.
So I took a little break and think I feel better now. The bottom line is I feel bad for you Americans. No matter who the two parties choose to be the leaders, you're faced with choosing between the "power-crazed warmonger" party and the "weakly protesting but almost completely ineffectual" party.
Hell, even when I'm trying to *not* rant, some of the froth comes through. Amazing how strongly your country's political problems can polarize people. Even the ones (like me) that can't vote
Good luck guys. I think it's going to get worse before it gets better.
You should write that up and patent it.
"Process to determine method of creating a duplicate manufactoring process of electronic and other systems".
Of all the fictional presidents I've seen, I liked Morgan Freeman the best.
If I pick him, do I also have to pick the meteor impact (cause if I do, I'll move out of NYC)
if you shout "tyranny" now, what words will you use when it gets worse?
Revolution.
(I really liked your post btw)
I don't think the people who make the laws care about the consumers very much. I suspect they care more about the large companies and lobbyists that donate money and perks.
just put it on a very small USB thumbdrive on your keychain. Plug it into whatever computer you're using and browse the thumbdrive. Double click and go -- no need to worry about leaving personal information on your friend's computer.
You had better encrypt that thumbdrive in case the computer owner slurps all the data off it while it's plugged in.
In one of the DVD commentaries, Joss said that they did their best to use modern street Chinese as spoken in Taiwan (? Hong Kong?) using everyday slang and swearing.
:-)
Perhaps the reason it's so hard to understand is because it's from a different region than yourself and/or non-fluent actors reading from a phonetic script?
Not understanding any Chinese other than "San Yut Fi Doh" and "Sheh sheh" (sp?) I think I'll be bookmarking your site
Good thing they didn't understand the Chinese lines.
If the book isn't available, does it really exist?
Or maybe they learned from Red Dwarf...
Which works great when you're spying on individual suspects.
This wiretap program seems to be spying on everybody. There's no way the secret courts can handle that kind of paperwork.
I prefer to call it "Digital Restriction Management" since IMO, what they're really doing is restricting my access to the $whatever and it keeps the acronym intact
Not really. This is slashdot so I generally expect things to be pro-science and anti-government.
I like it. The only problem with that is that some of us are H1-Bs [cough]you insensitive clod[cough]
Then we'd need meta-voting to make sure the regular voting goes well. And stop people from voting and making commentary in the same election.
;-)
Then you assign Friends and Foes based on their voting and it all just goes to Hell from there.
(Have you meta-voted today?)
meh. I'm just waiting for a link to the Google cache.
The key difference with SSNs is that you can't read them remotely from everyone who walks by.
Until, for security reasons, SSN cards get rfid tags. Sometime after driver's licenses I'd wager
my friggin ADSL modem runs linux and a web server. My friggin modem!
Yeah, but do you have sharks with friggin Linux in their heads?
No torrent, but w3schools (sort of) has a tutorial.
So now "not helping the government" is a crime in and of itself?
Yes. Inaction, i.e. not actively helping the government, has now become a federal crime with a potential death sentence. (If the government says you are a terrorist)