On a federal and international level. While it doesn't solve the problem entirely. It would at least be a step that could be leveraged in situations like this. Also, make the creating/initiating criminal offensives, so there can be more than just monetary damages.
The sparse, narrow state level laws that currently exist can only be use in rare cases are not able to be uses on a large scale or frequently.
if $VENDOR == MS
switch (DayOfWeek) {
case M : Deny Deny Deny
print "no we didn't"
case T : set $BUG = $FEATURE
print "that's a feature"
default : print "Vista is great"
} GOTO default
Well, pretty soon with Google Genetics, you'll (or at least someone) will be able to see that his descents search for the term 'back hair removal' 15% more than the general population, that the average income of people with those genes is ~18,500USD, and that they have a 85% higher chance of left nostril cancer. Convenient links to scrollable/zoomable views of their houses also available.
Sure would be great. DVDs that hold 80 Gig. No power lines clogging up the scenery. Only a 50% rise in cases of noggin cancer. Oh, and we might, if we have spare some time, be able to finish that Star Wars thing of Reagan's. Or was Real Genius where I saw something like that.
They don't need to veto it. They don't even follow the Constitution. What makes anybody thing they would follow this law any more than any of the other laws they don't follow.
While it is very common to only refer to electronic messages as spam, it would seem that a more general definition would put Spam much older.
Spam should be defined to include ANY unsolicited proactive message. For instance, I consider it spam when some telemarketing company has a computer call my cell phone and play a recorded advertisement (despite being on the DNC list). For that matter, it's also spam when a person telemarketer wastes my time, trying to sell something.
Aside from unsolicited phone calls, how much junk mail do you receive. Think how many trees are killed, and how much fuel is burnt transporting, and how much energy was used, producing junk mail which goes into the trash after trying to sort out important mail.
New, recently proposed legislation now requires every person to store everything they say or hear for two years. This is for your protection and must be accessible to the FBI and local law enforcement.
Advocates for the new law cite the number of lives that could have been saved if this was available to fight terrorists in 1776.
In other news, President Bush was elected to a fifth term despite only having 1% of the popular vote and a 0% approval rating. When asked how this didn't violate the 22nd amendment to the constitution, the President's reply was, "the what?"
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>> Do you see how this dilutes your share of the value? The $1000 stakeholder now has 17%, leaving you with only 8.3%.
Actually, $1000 / $6000 = 16.6%, which is 2x8.3%. Here it's the proportion that matters.
>>And suppose that the $1000 of new capital is used to purchase bogus games which have no real value,
This is no different that is $1000 of existing capitol was wasted and is not related to dilution.
>>or even worse, is just pocketed by the chairman.
What you describe is the chairman selling corporation owned(non-issued) stock and keeping the proceeds. Dilution would not be the issue here either.
The problem is when the change in %voting rights or %of retained earnings and changes significantly.
In Microsoft's case, they obviously did something right to get most of the PC's in the world running their OS. But they've had some pretty big flops over the last few years. Proof that pumping money into something isn't enough.
Only if you count when Apple dropped the ball and allowed a company that stole their UI and makes an inferior product, also take Apples lead position as 'Microsoft doing something right'
Who needs a mandatory collar? 90% of the population has a cell phone glued to their ear anyway. And they already have a unique identifier, mandatory GPS (for your protection of course), and most(if user is the owner with account) are linked to all your other information like SSN and Address.
Which give all your financial information (credit reporting companies and banks, thanks FCRA and Patriot Act).
And is also already linked to all your medical information (MIB)
And soon, to your Google genetic predisposition to browsing goat porn.
Look on the bright side. We're getting close to where they will stop eroding your privacy. Too bad it's because there won't be any privacy left to erode.
One assumption that the pro-scanners forget, and I'm sure any wouldbe terrorist knows is that most of the security at airports is not really designed to keep you safe. It's designed to make FEEL safe.
For instance. They make 'profiled' people remove their shoes. Coincidently, the 'profiles' they the general public will view as suspicious. Aside from volume of shoe, there isn't any other factor I can think of that would indicate any less of a threat. Taking that into account, any terrorist might use that idea and purposefully use a less likely profiled shoe to decrease the odds of more scrutiny.
All this scanning/profiling/high visibility security, at the same time the compare a me with a photo ID I give them. It seams to me that one of the first security measures would be to compare a person to an image on file, rather than one someone hands them. Just by printing/stealing an ID and altering the image one could bypass all security dealing with watchlists or know terrorists.
Moving visual comparison to an image already on file from when an ID is issued makes ID forgery much more difficult, and allows the entire time from ticket purchase to automated image comparison to know terrorists. But, this isn't as visible.
The introduction of widescreen format for movies started in 1953 with CinemaScope. The intent was to make it so more people could be positioned infront of a screen. Many theaters did not want this since they had to either address the same crop,resize issue mentioned above, or remodel adding to the width of their screen. Not to mention it required purchasing a new lens which cost ~$1500. A lot of money in the 50's.
Since theaters had no choice but be accommodating to the studios (no movie, no customers), wide screen format took hold. There were a variety of aspect ratios, but they mostly stayed wide, targeted at presentation to a field of people.
I find it amusing when I hear widescreen movie buffs proclaim original aspect ratio is artist choice and is the only way to watch a movie. This is because the human eyeball is not wide screen. It is a sphere with more rods+cones positioned centrally where the lens focuses better. And while there is more LR range than up/down range (also take into account neck movement) this is used very little with current screen size/distance standards. Overall, you'll miss less the less your eyes need to move to focus on something.
This also leads to the difference between presentation to a field and presentation to an individual. Laptops it would seem should be designed for presentation to a single point, rather than a horizonal plane.
One final point. This entire argument is probably moot for two reasons. First, it probably won't be too long before they don't have screens and use some other output device (hologram, VR, eye sized screen). Second, the manufacturing companies don't really care what we think, they know all us/. people will buy the latest because it has a multipoint touchpad or a the new IntelinuxStreetGoog widget attached, even if you need to staple the screen to your forehead since it would be the latest thing.
The classifying and storage of all your medical information is already taking place. Read the fine print on most insurance forms you sign. Where it says MIB they aren't taking about the movie.
The Medical Information Bureau is a private company that almost every insurance company reports your medical information to under the guise of (fraud prevention). The maintain records on everyone and then sell that information to their members. Also interesting, they are classified as a âoeconsumer reporting agencyâ according to FACTA. And, according their website, they are required to comply with FCRA, but Its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, MIB Solutions, Inc., MAY be required to comply with FCRA.
Also from their website
"Most of MIB's codes signify medical conditions. A very few of these indicate risks involving HAZARDOUS AVOCATIONS or ADVERSE DRIVING RECORDS, etc." (These are currently being used to deny insurance to people.)
"MIB's Security Alert Services is a compliance solution designed to assist insurance and FINANCIAL SERVICES companies in fulfilling their legal obligations under the
USA PATRIOT Act -
U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and
Canada's Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI)" (OFAC, OSFI, PATRIOT Act!!!!)
For those who think they have some protection under HIPAA. HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, has been publicized as helping to protect your privacy by instituting huge penalties for disclose of medical information. It's a joke. Its definitions of when disclosure of your information are so general that almost anything can be allowed.
For 10+ years I was a professional preventer of natural selection. As far as privacy is concerned, there is no HIPAA.
I don't thing Google will add a feature to street view that shows that the resident has CF or Sickle Cell. I do however think that once the information is in a form where these links could be made, they will be.
It would be nice if this was curtailed early with true penalties. Any intermediary data transport should not be allowed to alter information. Block maybe, but never alter.
I never even thought to check for this stuff. I wonder how many other schemes are doing this. Say swapping out Amazon associate numbers, or Google Adsense numbers?? unless your are the sender and the recipient, and check this, how would you know?
How is this different than if FedEx started opening packages and inserting advertising fliers? Or swapping out the high end item you purchased for a replica made in Indonesia?
Someone probably said that Google's toys(street view and all their tracking data) were cool so a spoiled kid decided he had to have the biggest(most invasive) toy on the playground.
>> I pray that all the Slashdotters who complain about stories like this (and who are citizens the USA) are going to use their right to vote this November to make their voices heard.
I'm still waiting for the announcement of some miraculous reason (for our benefit of course) that the election either won't take place, or is nullified. And of course why follow the term limit for presidency why they don't follow anything else (I'm sure it will also be for our benefit).
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Add a bunch of .gov and .mil addresses to the email lists
On a federal and international level. While it doesn't solve the problem entirely. It would at least be a step that could be leveraged in situations like this. Also, make the creating/initiating criminal offensives, so there can be more than just monetary damages.
The sparse, narrow state level laws that currently exist can only be use in rare cases are not able to be uses on a large scale or frequently.
You left out the
if $VENDOR == MS
switch (DayOfWeek) {
case M : Deny Deny Deny
print "no we didn't"
case T : set $BUG = $FEATURE
print "that's a feature"
default : print "Vista is great"
}
GOTO default
Well, pretty soon with Google Genetics, you'll (or at least someone) will be able to see that his descents search for the term 'back hair removal' 15% more than the general population, that the average income of people with those genes is ~18,500USD, and that they have a 85% higher chance of left nostril cancer. Convenient links to scrollable/zoomable views of their houses also available.
How long before this gets used as an excuse to not take responsibility for oneself.
Actually, it kind of already has anytime a computer game/movie is blamed when some SLCB shoots up a school or post office.
Sure would be great. DVDs that hold 80 Gig. No power lines clogging up the scenery. Only a 50% rise in cases of noggin cancer. Oh, and we might, if we have spare some time, be able to finish that Star Wars thing of Reagan's. Or was Real Genius where I saw something like that.
They don't need to veto it. They don't even follow the Constitution. What makes anybody thing they would follow this law any more than any of the other laws they don't follow.
>> "There are places where criminal activity is centralized..."
Yes there are. The White House, NSA, Dept of Homeland Security.
While it is very common to only refer to electronic messages as spam, it would seem that a more general definition would put Spam much older.
Spam should be defined to include ANY unsolicited proactive message. For instance, I consider it spam when some telemarketing company has a computer call my cell phone and play a recorded advertisement (despite being on the DNC list). For that matter, it's also spam when a person telemarketer wastes my time, trying to sell something.
Aside from unsolicited phone calls, how much junk mail do you receive. Think how many trees are killed, and how much fuel is burnt transporting, and how much energy was used, producing junk mail which goes into the trash after trying to sort out important mail.
As for estimating an actual age, who knows.
New, recently proposed legislation now requires every person to store everything they say or hear for two years. This is for your protection and must be accessible to the FBI and local law enforcement. Advocates for the new law cite the number of lives that could have been saved if this was available to fight terrorists in 1776.
In other news, President Bush was elected to a fifth term despite only having 1% of the popular vote and a 0% approval rating. When asked how this didn't violate the 22nd amendment to the constitution, the President's reply was, "the what?"
>> Do you see how this dilutes your share of the value? The $1000 stakeholder now has 17%, leaving you with only 8.3%.
Actually, $1000 / $6000 = 16.6%, which is 2x8.3%. Here it's the proportion that matters.
>>And suppose that the $1000 of new capital is used to purchase bogus games which have no real value,
This is no different that is $1000 of existing capitol was wasted and is not related to dilution.
>>or even worse, is just pocketed by the chairman.
What you describe is the chairman selling corporation owned(non-issued) stock and keeping the proceeds. Dilution would not be the issue here either.
The problem is when the change in %voting rights or %of retained earnings and changes significantly.
Only if you count when Apple dropped the ball and allowed a company that stole their UI and makes an inferior product, also take Apples lead position as 'Microsoft doing something right'
Who needs a mandatory collar? 90% of the population has a cell phone glued to their ear anyway. And they already have a unique identifier, mandatory GPS (for your protection of course), and most(if user is the owner with account) are linked to all your other information like SSN and Address.
Which give all your financial information (credit reporting companies and banks, thanks FCRA and Patriot Act).
And is also already linked to all your medical information (MIB)
And soon, to your Google genetic predisposition to browsing goat porn.
Look on the bright side. We're getting close to where they will stop eroding your privacy. Too bad it's because there won't be any privacy left to erode.
True Perl oneliner would be
print "all your code on one line!\n" if ($laptopAspectRatio eq 'Widescreen');
One assumption that the pro-scanners forget, and I'm sure any wouldbe terrorist knows is that most of the security at airports is not really designed to keep you safe. It's designed to make FEEL safe.
For instance. They make 'profiled' people remove their shoes. Coincidently, the 'profiles' they the general public will view as suspicious. Aside from volume of shoe, there isn't any other factor I can think of that would indicate any less of a threat. Taking that into account, any terrorist might use that idea and purposefully use a less likely profiled shoe to decrease the odds of more scrutiny.
All this scanning/profiling/high visibility security, at the same time the compare a me with a photo ID I give them. It seams to me that one of the first security measures would be to compare a person to an image on file, rather than one someone hands them. Just by printing/stealing an ID and altering the image one could bypass all security dealing with watchlists or know terrorists.
Moving visual comparison to an image already on file from when an ID is issued makes ID forgery much more difficult, and allows the entire time from ticket purchase to automated image comparison to know terrorists. But, this isn't as visible.
It's all about $.
/. people will buy the latest because it has a multipoint touchpad or a the new IntelinuxStreetGoog widget attached, even if you need to staple the screen to your forehead since it would be the latest thing.
The introduction of widescreen format for movies started in 1953 with CinemaScope. The intent was to make it so more people could be positioned infront of a screen. Many theaters did not want this since they had to either address the same crop,resize issue mentioned above, or remodel adding to the width of their screen. Not to mention it required purchasing a new lens which cost ~$1500. A lot of money in the 50's.
Since theaters had no choice but be accommodating to the studios (no movie, no customers), wide screen format took hold. There were a variety of aspect ratios, but they mostly stayed wide, targeted at presentation to a field of people.
I find it amusing when I hear widescreen movie buffs proclaim original aspect ratio is artist choice and is the only way to watch a movie. This is because the human eyeball is not wide screen. It is a sphere with more rods+cones positioned centrally where the lens focuses better. And while there is more LR range than up/down range (also take into account neck movement) this is used very little with current screen size/distance standards. Overall, you'll miss less the less your eyes need to move to focus on something.
This also leads to the difference between presentation to a field and presentation to an individual. Laptops it would seem should be designed for presentation to a single point, rather than a horizonal plane.
One final point. This entire argument is probably moot for two reasons. First, it probably won't be too long before they don't have screens and use some other output device (hologram, VR, eye sized screen). Second, the manufacturing companies don't really care what we think, they know all us
The classifying and storage of all your medical information is already taking place. Read the fine print on most insurance forms you sign. Where it says MIB they aren't taking about the movie.
The Medical Information Bureau is a private company that almost every insurance company reports your medical information to under the guise of (fraud prevention). The maintain records on everyone and then sell that information to their members. Also interesting, they are classified as a âoeconsumer reporting agencyâ according to FACTA. And, according their website, they are required to comply with FCRA, but Its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, MIB Solutions, Inc., MAY be required to comply with FCRA.
Also from their website "Most of MIB's codes signify medical conditions. A very few of these indicate risks involving HAZARDOUS AVOCATIONS or ADVERSE DRIVING RECORDS, etc." (These are currently being used to deny insurance to people.)
"MIB's Security Alert Services is a compliance solution designed to assist insurance and FINANCIAL SERVICES companies in fulfilling their legal obligations under the USA PATRIOT Act - U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and Canada's Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI)" (OFAC, OSFI, PATRIOT Act!!!!)
For those who think they have some protection under HIPAA. HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, has been publicized as helping to protect your privacy by instituting huge penalties for disclose of medical information. It's a joke. Its definitions of when disclosure of your information are so general that almost anything can be allowed. For 10+ years I was a professional preventer of natural selection. As far as privacy is concerned, there is no HIPAA.
I don't thing Google will add a feature to street view that shows that the resident has CF or Sickle Cell. I do however think that once the information is in a form where these links could be made, they will be.
Or they're busy changing all the filenames of their P2P files.
It would be nice if this was curtailed early with true penalties. Any intermediary data transport should not be allowed to alter information. Block maybe, but never alter.
I never even thought to check for this stuff. I wonder how many other schemes are doing this. Say swapping out Amazon associate numbers, or Google Adsense numbers?? unless your are the sender and the recipient, and check this, how would you know?
How is this different than if FedEx started opening packages and inserting advertising fliers? Or swapping out the high end item you purchased for a replica made in Indonesia?
a: translation... I have plausible deniability.
b:, c: Noted, but how long do you think that alterations will stay mostly benign?
And we wonder why US companies outsource.
Someone probably said that Google's toys(street view and all their tracking data) were cool so a spoiled kid decided he had to have the biggest(most invasive) toy on the playground.
>> I pray that all the Slashdotters who complain about stories like this (and who are citizens the USA) are going to use their right to vote this November to make their voices heard.
I'm still waiting for the announcement of some miraculous reason (for our benefit of course) that the election either won't take place, or is nullified. And of course why follow the term limit for presidency why they don't follow anything else (I'm sure it will also be for our benefit).
Now I'm going to have to reorganize my movie collection moving titles like '1984' and 'Enemy of the State' from science fiction to current events.