>> Predictions that paper would disappear in the 1970s in favor of electronic documents were wrong
That's because no-one's ever given us E-paper.
I don't want or need a whole forest of paper to be re-used after a single day (or whatever arbitrary number they set). I just want a single big sheet of foldable, high contrast (equivalent to todays paper-paper) E-paper that I can re-use whenever I see fit. I need it to be able to update wirelessless whatever data I happen to want (e.g. page 7 of the NYT), through a simple interface. And I need it be inter-active. If I double-tap a word, for instance, I want it to provide me with a definition, or perhaps wiki article, about that word. This reusable paper doesn't even come close.
I tried using Blockbustre for a while. But their utter incompetence at renting DVD-based products ultimately drove me away. First off they only sell you the 'child safe' versions of a lot of DVDs, so you never even get to see what the director actually intended. Once I tried going through the whole Alias program. They were missing a disk right in the middle of the last season (which I didn't find out about until I tried to rent it). They said they could not, and would not order the disk, and that this kind of thing happened all the time. And of course there were months when each time I came in they would beg me to do the online thing. The last straw was when I went to rent two movies at normal price and the clerk told me I was throwing that money away compared to what it would cost to get it online. I realized she was right, and after that I went to Netflix, and never went back. I think Blockbustre is like that Real Player company, once you've proven to be beyond a doubt how evil you are at your chosen field of business, I will NEVER go back to you.
>> tax returns, credit reports, bank statements and student financial aid applications >> These documents were stored on the computers of hundreds of victims, many of whom appear >> to have been of high school or college age
If you're an Identity Thief, I guess you might be able to easily find a lot of tax records of high schoolers, but how is that gonna translate into loads of fast cash? You'd have to wait 6 to 8 years for them to graduate college, get good jobs, marry into wealth, etc. Then it might be profitable. Or maybe you're just stealing their ID to get the Student discount on MS Word?
I didn't even _know_ there was a Wikileaks Facebook discussion group hosted, in part, by Noam Chomsky. I love Chomsky and would love to hear his insights into this whole debacle. Thanks Lavely and Singer!
"The posting of confidential bank records by anonymous sources significantly harms the privacy rights of all individuals."
Especially individuals engaged in tax fraud.
You always see captain Kirk, Spock, the Redshirts, and all the rest of them beam down into dirty, dusty, hostile environments for weeks at a time. Most of the episodes, the planet hadn't even evolved dry cleaners or laundromats, or it had evolved way way past that. Yet their shirts are always spotless. I always wondered how that worked. Now I know: Titanium nano crystals from the future embedded in the very fabric of the star fleet uniform.
And an independent media (e.g. James Risen at the New York Times) to publish some lists of people who have been illegally wire-tapped. Or maybe some technician who works for a major communications network can upload the list of names/numbers they've been tasked to set up monitors on.
First thing I do when I log into _any_ Microsoft box (and I log into quite a few for work purposes) is turn off the ugly wall-papers and set the background colour to black. In fact, I do this on all my Macs as well. I guess most people prefer the clutter of an ugly wall-paper or background image.
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>> Predictions that paper would disappear in the 1970s in favor of electronic documents were wrong
That's because no-one's ever given us E-paper. I don't want or need a whole forest of paper to be re-used after a single day (or whatever arbitrary number they set). I just want a single big sheet of foldable, high contrast (equivalent to todays paper-paper) E-paper that I can re-use whenever I see fit. I need it to be able to update wirelessless whatever data I happen to want (e.g. page 7 of the NYT), through a simple interface. And I need it be inter-active. If I double-tap a word, for instance, I want it to provide me with a definition, or perhaps wiki article, about that word. This reusable paper doesn't even come close.
I tried using Blockbustre for a while. But their utter incompetence at renting DVD-based products ultimately drove me away. First off they only sell you the 'child safe' versions of a lot of DVDs, so you never even get to see what the director actually intended. Once I tried going through the whole Alias program. They were missing a disk right in the middle of the last season (which I didn't find out about until I tried to rent it). They said they could not, and would not order the disk, and that this kind of thing happened all the time. And of course there were months when each time I came in they would beg me to do the online thing. The last straw was when I went to rent two movies at normal price and the clerk told me I was throwing that money away compared to what it would cost to get it online. I realized she was right, and after that I went to Netflix, and never went back. I think Blockbustre is like that Real Player company, once you've proven to be beyond a doubt how evil you are at your chosen field of business, I will NEVER go back to you.
>> tax returns, credit reports, bank statements and student financial aid applications
>> These documents were stored on the computers of hundreds of victims, many of whom appear
>> to have been of high school or college age
If you're an Identity Thief, I guess you might be able to easily find a lot of tax records of high schoolers, but how is that gonna translate into loads of fast cash? You'd have to wait 6 to 8 years for them to graduate college, get good jobs, marry into wealth, etc. Then it might be profitable. Or maybe you're just stealing their ID to get the Student discount on MS Word?
trying to run your website from excel is another.
I didn't even _know_ there was a Wikileaks Facebook discussion group hosted, in part, by Noam Chomsky. I love Chomsky and would love to hear his insights into this whole debacle. Thanks Lavely and Singer!
"The posting of confidential bank records by anonymous sources significantly harms the privacy rights of all individuals." Especially individuals engaged in tax fraud.
You always see captain Kirk, Spock, the Redshirts, and all the rest of them beam down into dirty, dusty, hostile environments for weeks at a time. Most of the episodes, the planet hadn't even evolved dry cleaners or laundromats, or it had evolved way way past that. Yet their shirts are always spotless. I always wondered how that worked. Now I know: Titanium nano crystals from the future embedded in the very fabric of the star fleet uniform.
This is exactly why I only ever post onto the Internet using names that are different from my legal/birth name.
And an independent media (e.g. James Risen at the New York Times) to publish some lists of people who have been illegally wire-tapped. Or maybe some technician who works for a major communications network can upload the list of names/numbers they've been tasked to set up monitors on.
First thing I do when I log into _any_ Microsoft box (and I log into quite a few for work purposes) is turn off the ugly wall-papers and set the background colour to black. In fact, I do this on all my Macs as well. I guess most people prefer the clutter of an ugly wall-paper or background image.