While I agree with you, there are also some things to be gained from having access to the internet. For example how many people would care about the situation in Iran if Iran had no internet? The internet lets people empathize with others around the world and allows for new ideas to be shared that might help create a revolution. When the poor villages in Africa realize that their tribal overlords aren't helping them, that food isn't as scarce as they think it is, change will happen.
MS made some changes to Vista to make it very very hard for a third party program to read/write to any non-MS partition. So who is going to make a cheap flash drive that only works on Linux, BSD and OS X? I would imagine the answer would be not very many.
Sure, FAT is obsolete, I wouldn't want it as my primary partition, but lets say I want to have a small partition to read/write on to store a few music files that are readable across OSes. I would more than likely have to use FAT because the others don't work with all OSes.
So just disable your browser history if you are that paranoid about it. It only takes a few clicks in any major browser. Plus if you for some reason don't want to do that, most browsers now have a private mode that doesn't record those sites in the history.
There are a lot of reasons outside of conspiracy theories why we aren't currently on the moon.
A) Lack of funding, the government doesn't want NASA to relearn stuff. We already "learned" about the moon back when we landed there (remember, this post is assuming the conspiracy theories are incorrect). While other planets we know a lot less about them.
B) No evidence of life. Unlike a lot of investigated planets, we pretty much can tell that there is no liquid water on the moon without having to do much to prove the lack of it.
C) Overcomplicating technology, the machines that took us to the moon were simple, simplicity allows you to work out a bunch of bugs and simplicity allows for more accurate human override.
D) The space shuttle, most of the US flights recently have been on the space shuttle, which, cannot land on the moon safely.
E) Space travel is seen as a risk with no real benefits. In the period before Challenger, space flight was considered routine, Challenger's destruction made people skeptical of why we should be putting people in space. Then space flight was considered routine until the destruction of Columbia. Today, it is considered more routine, but still lacks the "this is totally normal" that airplane flights have.
F) The current economy has made it hard for space tourism to get off the ground. Sure, private companies have come leaps and bounds over what they previously had, but as for getting a private company to carry manned missions to the moon? Not quite yet.
G) Space travel is looked at as needless by the average person. Sure, they would like to travel to space, but they don't think it has any benefit to them so they don't really care about it and similarly don't express concern.
The point still remains that the same technology could be used for people for the same reasons especially if we have a few more swine flu or bird flu scares. Don't you realize that every violation of rights starts really really small? First copy protection just involved a word you had to type from the manual, not too bad right? Then it required serial codes, then you needed to register the serial codes on the internet and people started to get hurt (I remember buying a game at a large retailer with an already used serial code, so what did they do? They gave me a new game then I saw them hand it off to another person to be restocked back on the shelves.... But fact is, everything starts small, sure now this isn't a big deal, but one or two more swine flu outbreaks and it will inch closer to 1984 ever so slowly....
Plus this could be used for slight bits of research for use in humans too.
Regarding the cost, I can't imagine that this would be more expensive that the cost of destroying entire herds of cattle when one cow comes down with a confirmed or probable case of these diseases.
Its a risk many would prefer to take though. There is only a tiny risk that this might happen. On the other hand, for every cow you have you would need a microchip which would add a ton of costs. For a mega-farm this makes sense, for the average small rancher with 50 or so head of cattle, this only will send them into bankruptcy.
Ok, to put this in perspective, this is akin to having a centralized database for all hard drives, SSDs and flash memory that report if they have viruses or not. The downside is this costs $50 per device. Sure, the idea is good, but the implementation is terrible. And really, there are many small farms across the USA where this would destroy their way of life.
Perhaps you should move to a tyrannical government where they don't even act like they listen to the people and if your business gets hurt they don't care. Perhaps Iran or North Korea? Plus, if you don't like it you can choose not to support the meat industry its not like people are shoving steaks down your throat. If you want to be a vegetarian or vegan, fine, but you have no right to deprive people of their living just because you dislike it.
Thats a nice idea... Unfortunately the only reason for many people to have a word processor is to read/write to Office files. Making the ability to do those crucial.
a.) Listening to the video would not get you in trouble, but uploading it might.
Says who? The only reason why the RIAA has not actively pursued these cases is because the most popular is owned by Google who can afford great lawyers and with an informed judge might create some copyright reform. Plus the damages would be too small for them to activly pursue them... Yet.
In July 2008, Viacom won a court ruling requiring YouTube to hand over data detailing the viewing habits of every user who has watched videos on the site. The move led to concerns that the viewing habits of individual users could be identified through a combination of their IP addresses and login names. The decision was criticized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which called the court ruling "a set-back to privacy rights".[36] U.S. District Court Judge Louis Stanton dismissed the privacy concerns as "speculative", and ordered YouTube to hand over documents totalling around 12 terabytes of data.
If viewing these things were no big deal why would Viacom demand the logs?
b.) Relying on the ISP to not divulge the connection between your name and your IP address is obfuscation, not to be confused with actual security. One should use an anonymous proxy to post things you do not want traced back to you.
Sure, but I should have the expectation of privacy. Just like I should have the expectation of privacy when I shower with the door locked. Could someone break down the door? Sure. But I still have the reasonable expectation of privacy. Similarly, I should assume my ISP would not divulge my IP with names unless there was a warrant.
c.) You should destroy all your porn after viewing and fapping.
Sure, but what happens if they use logs to figure out of viewing it, even on a webpage?
d.) Relying on the authorities not having the inclination to prosecute you is also a bad idea.
Thats why we have search warrants in the first place. In the 1700s and 1800s when the America's governments were being established, you had a lot more privacy. Crimes could only be prosecuted with solid evidence. One of the points of that was to get rid of unpopular laws because if everyone broke them it would be too much of a hassle to prosecute them unless they were doing something really wrong. Fast forward to the 2000s and we have an unpopular copyright law that suddenly becomes enforceable when you take away the search warrants.
Ever heard of a mass Apache exploit that was exploited in the wild? I doubt it. But ever heard of Code Red? There has been no massive exploit of Apache systems in the way that MS systems have been routinely compromised with the various worms such as Code Red, Nimda, and Code Red II.
You do realize that there are more than republicans that don't support this and that republican != right wing and that there are a lot of republicans/libertarians who vote republican who oppose him and a lot of the Bush administration's views on privacy. I am a libertarian and I opposed Bush on a lot of issues and oppose Obama and a lot of issues.
Hahahahah. Right. Ever listened to a YouTube video that had an audio track under copyright? The RIAA (or canadian equivalents) would love to sue you for that. Posted a comment critical of the government? Next thing you know you wind up on a non-disclosed "watch list" and can't leave the country. Viewed porn of someone 17 by accident? The government would love to lock you away.
The thing was, before this you had to attract the attention of the authorities, now the authorities might just wonder who IP XXX.XXX.XXX is and find something to arrest you for.
Ok, but tell me, your ISP knows who you are right? Should your ISP be giving out your IP and your confidential information? I don't think so. This is what its talking about that the government/big businesses now know who XXX.XXX.XXX is and everything about them. This isn't that Facebook knows that IP XXX.XXX.XXX corresponds to profile Joe Sixpack, but rather that anything is now open to suspicions such as the ISPs looking at your IP address to figure out you are FudRucker then giving whoever wants the information your name, address, etc.
Um, part of the reason is the government makes the corporations have no moral values. For example, if Sony were to pull out of China, shareholders could sue Sony for passing up a potential market with a billion people in it. It is the government that makes corporations be amoral, not the people there.
...Except the software was sold in China, not in the USA. And who is going to sue them for copyright infringement and what judge is going to convict them when their own laws say that they have to have it in there? Its equivalent to someone 18 years old changing their citizenship to where drinking under 21 years old is allowed and the US cops come and arrest them. It doesn't work.
You see, you don't see the big picture. You are arguing purely with the US governments system. I on the other hand am arguing for governments in general. What is the point of government? To maintain order. People established and went with small tribal governments to protect people as a whole. It was a compromise, people allowed some basic rights to be violated in order to have stability and order. However, over time their rights were violated too many times so they decided to make a limited government. Part of having a free government is that the government should have no more control over its people save to have order. The government should not deserve my hard earned money unless they do something for it. Otherwise the government is either tyranny or is a thief.
The power generated might be enough to run one headlight. But what would really be interesting is capturing some of the speed energy to help charge the battery. But with using wind.
No governments only diverse taxes when they have helped for example you can charge sales tax on some things because you (presumably) drove on government roads to get there. On the other hand, when I order something online especially virtual goods like a song, e-book or movie what did the government do to deserve the tax? Nothing. Therefore they should not be taxed.
Sure, but Silicon ranks only below oxygen in abundance. Cadmium, nickel and copper are also quite abundant. We/might/ have to recycle them but none of the materials are scarce in any way.
But there is still the issue of speed. You can use old methods of RAM and have an incredible amount of RAM for an old computer... Yet the RAM is slow. It requires a major change of archetecture to go from DDR to DDR2 to DDR3. Its not as simple as just letting you have a few more slots. Same with PCI and PCI express. Then there in miniaturization. I could still place my tiny media center PC in my old circa 1995 PC case, but that kinda kills the point of miniaturization. Also you have to remember the masses are not computer experts. What takes us 2 minutes to do (like changing the RAM) will more than likely take them well over an hour or pay expensive fees for someone to do it for them (like $15-20 for just changing out the RAM in an ordinary desktop). There is also the HD battle, people want the best picture. DVDs can not provide the resolution that Blu-Ray can in a disk. A DVD player cannot play a Blu-Ray disk. Also, VGA only goes to a certain point in resolution, HDMI is going to get you better picture. What you are proposing would only lead to even more waste because no one is going to use an RF modulator to connect their Blu-Ray player to their HD TV so that goes in the trash and they might have to buy the HDMI cable.
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While I agree with you, there are also some things to be gained from having access to the internet. For example how many people would care about the situation in Iran if Iran had no internet? The internet lets people empathize with others around the world and allows for new ideas to be shared that might help create a revolution. When the poor villages in Africa realize that their tribal overlords aren't helping them, that food isn't as scarce as they think it is, change will happen.
MS made some changes to Vista to make it very very hard for a third party program to read/write to any non-MS partition. So who is going to make a cheap flash drive that only works on Linux, BSD and OS X? I would imagine the answer would be not very many.
Sure, FAT is obsolete, I wouldn't want it as my primary partition, but lets say I want to have a small partition to read/write on to store a few music files that are readable across OSes. I would more than likely have to use FAT because the others don't work with all OSes.
So just disable your browser history if you are that paranoid about it. It only takes a few clicks in any major browser. Plus if you for some reason don't want to do that, most browsers now have a private mode that doesn't record those sites in the history.
...Except for the fact his /. user name is... BillyMays.... Which kinda adds to the joke
There are a lot of reasons outside of conspiracy theories why we aren't currently on the moon.
A) Lack of funding, the government doesn't want NASA to relearn stuff. We already "learned" about the moon back when we landed there (remember, this post is assuming the conspiracy theories are incorrect). While other planets we know a lot less about them.
B) No evidence of life. Unlike a lot of investigated planets, we pretty much can tell that there is no liquid water on the moon without having to do much to prove the lack of it.
C) Overcomplicating technology, the machines that took us to the moon were simple, simplicity allows you to work out a bunch of bugs and simplicity allows for more accurate human override.
D) The space shuttle, most of the US flights recently have been on the space shuttle, which, cannot land on the moon safely.
E) Space travel is seen as a risk with no real benefits. In the period before Challenger, space flight was considered routine, Challenger's destruction made people skeptical of why we should be putting people in space. Then space flight was considered routine until the destruction of Columbia. Today, it is considered more routine, but still lacks the "this is totally normal" that airplane flights have.
F) The current economy has made it hard for space tourism to get off the ground. Sure, private companies have come leaps and bounds over what they previously had, but as for getting a private company to carry manned missions to the moon? Not quite yet.
G) Space travel is looked at as needless by the average person. Sure, they would like to travel to space, but they don't think it has any benefit to them so they don't really care about it and similarly don't express concern.
The point still remains that the same technology could be used for people for the same reasons especially if we have a few more swine flu or bird flu scares. Don't you realize that every violation of rights starts really really small? First copy protection just involved a word you had to type from the manual, not too bad right? Then it required serial codes, then you needed to register the serial codes on the internet and people started to get hurt (I remember buying a game at a large retailer with an already used serial code, so what did they do? They gave me a new game then I saw them hand it off to another person to be restocked back on the shelves.... But fact is, everything starts small, sure now this isn't a big deal, but one or two more swine flu outbreaks and it will inch closer to 1984 ever so slowly....
Plus this could be used for slight bits of research for use in humans too.
Regarding the cost, I can't imagine that this would be more expensive that the cost of destroying entire herds of cattle when one cow comes down with a confirmed or probable case of these diseases.
Its a risk many would prefer to take though. There is only a tiny risk that this might happen. On the other hand, for every cow you have you would need a microchip which would add a ton of costs. For a mega-farm this makes sense, for the average small rancher with 50 or so head of cattle, this only will send them into bankruptcy.
Ok, to put this in perspective, this is akin to having a centralized database for all hard drives, SSDs and flash memory that report if they have viruses or not. The downside is this costs $50 per device. Sure, the idea is good, but the implementation is terrible. And really, there are many small farms across the USA where this would destroy their way of life.
Perhaps you should move to a tyrannical government where they don't even act like they listen to the people and if your business gets hurt they don't care. Perhaps Iran or North Korea? Plus, if you don't like it you can choose not to support the meat industry its not like people are shoving steaks down your throat. If you want to be a vegetarian or vegan, fine, but you have no right to deprive people of their living just because you dislike it.
Yes and MS can't do that even between Word versions.
Thats a nice idea... Unfortunately the only reason for many people to have a word processor is to read/write to Office files. Making the ability to do those crucial.
a.) Listening to the video would not get you in trouble, but uploading it might.
Says who? The only reason why the RIAA has not actively pursued these cases is because the most popular is owned by Google who can afford great lawyers and with an informed judge might create some copyright reform. Plus the damages would be too small for them to activly pursue them... Yet.
In July 2008, Viacom won a court ruling requiring YouTube to hand over data detailing the viewing habits of every user who has watched videos on the site. The move led to concerns that the viewing habits of individual users could be identified through a combination of their IP addresses and login names. The decision was criticized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which called the court ruling "a set-back to privacy rights".[36] U.S. District Court Judge Louis Stanton dismissed the privacy concerns as "speculative", and ordered YouTube to hand over documents totalling around 12 terabytes of data.
If viewing these things were no big deal why would Viacom demand the logs?
b.) Relying on the ISP to not divulge the connection between your name and your IP address is obfuscation, not to be confused with actual security. One should use an anonymous proxy to post things you do not want traced back to you.
Sure, but I should have the expectation of privacy. Just like I should have the expectation of privacy when I shower with the door locked. Could someone break down the door? Sure. But I still have the reasonable expectation of privacy. Similarly, I should assume my ISP would not divulge my IP with names unless there was a warrant.
c.) You should destroy all your porn after viewing and fapping.
Sure, but what happens if they use logs to figure out of viewing it, even on a webpage?
d.) Relying on the authorities not having the inclination to prosecute you is also a bad idea.
Thats why we have search warrants in the first place. In the 1700s and 1800s when the America's governments were being established, you had a lot more privacy. Crimes could only be prosecuted with solid evidence. One of the points of that was to get rid of unpopular laws because if everyone broke them it would be too much of a hassle to prosecute them unless they were doing something really wrong. Fast forward to the 2000s and we have an unpopular copyright law that suddenly becomes enforceable when you take away the search warrants.
Ever heard of a mass Apache exploit that was exploited in the wild? I doubt it. But ever heard of Code Red? There has been no massive exploit of Apache systems in the way that MS systems have been routinely compromised with the various worms such as Code Red, Nimda, and Code Red II.
You do realize that there are more than republicans that don't support this and that republican != right wing and that there are a lot of republicans/libertarians who vote republican who oppose him and a lot of the Bush administration's views on privacy. I am a libertarian and I opposed Bush on a lot of issues and oppose Obama and a lot of issues.
Hahahahah. Right. Ever listened to a YouTube video that had an audio track under copyright? The RIAA (or canadian equivalents) would love to sue you for that. Posted a comment critical of the government? Next thing you know you wind up on a non-disclosed "watch list" and can't leave the country. Viewed porn of someone 17 by accident? The government would love to lock you away.
The thing was, before this you had to attract the attention of the authorities, now the authorities might just wonder who IP XXX.XXX.XXX is and find something to arrest you for.
Ok, but tell me, your ISP knows who you are right? Should your ISP be giving out your IP and your confidential information? I don't think so. This is what its talking about that the government/big businesses now know who XXX.XXX.XXX is and everything about them. This isn't that Facebook knows that IP XXX.XXX.XXX corresponds to profile Joe Sixpack, but rather that anything is now open to suspicions such as the ISPs looking at your IP address to figure out you are FudRucker then giving whoever wants the information your name, address, etc.
Um, part of the reason is the government makes the corporations have no moral values. For example, if Sony were to pull out of China, shareholders could sue Sony for passing up a potential market with a billion people in it. It is the government that makes corporations be amoral, not the people there.
...And so the answer would be to charge taxes for shipping and handling (and I think that they already do that) not on the good itself.
...Except the software was sold in China, not in the USA. And who is going to sue them for copyright infringement and what judge is going to convict them when their own laws say that they have to have it in there? Its equivalent to someone 18 years old changing their citizenship to where drinking under 21 years old is allowed and the US cops come and arrest them. It doesn't work.
You see, you don't see the big picture. You are arguing purely with the US governments system. I on the other hand am arguing for governments in general. What is the point of government? To maintain order. People established and went with small tribal governments to protect people as a whole. It was a compromise, people allowed some basic rights to be violated in order to have stability and order. However, over time their rights were violated too many times so they decided to make a limited government. Part of having a free government is that the government should have no more control over its people save to have order. The government should not deserve my hard earned money unless they do something for it. Otherwise the government is either tyranny or is a thief.
The power generated might be enough to run one headlight. But what would really be interesting is capturing some of the speed energy to help charge the battery. But with using wind.
No governments only diverse taxes when they have helped for example you can charge sales tax on some things because you (presumably) drove on government roads to get there. On the other hand, when I order something online especially virtual goods like a song, e-book or movie what did the government do to deserve the tax? Nothing. Therefore they should not be taxed.
Sure, but Silicon ranks only below oxygen in abundance. Cadmium, nickel and copper are also quite abundant. We /might/ have to recycle them but none of the materials are scarce in any way.
But there is still the issue of speed. You can use old methods of RAM and have an incredible amount of RAM for an old computer... Yet the RAM is slow. It requires a major change of archetecture to go from DDR to DDR2 to DDR3. Its not as simple as just letting you have a few more slots. Same with PCI and PCI express. Then there in miniaturization. I could still place my tiny media center PC in my old circa 1995 PC case, but that kinda kills the point of miniaturization. Also you have to remember the masses are not computer experts. What takes us 2 minutes to do (like changing the RAM) will more than likely take them well over an hour or pay expensive fees for someone to do it for them (like $15-20 for just changing out the RAM in an ordinary desktop). There is also the HD battle, people want the best picture. DVDs can not provide the resolution that Blu-Ray can in a disk. A DVD player cannot play a Blu-Ray disk. Also, VGA only goes to a certain point in resolution, HDMI is going to get you better picture. What you are proposing would only lead to even more waste because no one is going to use an RF modulator to connect their Blu-Ray player to their HD TV so that goes in the trash and they might have to buy the HDMI cable.