I have read that document. It does not appear to provide any real protection, just provide a legislative framework for officials to harass innocent members of the public and tourists, while stopping anybody but government or the wealthy or foreign hackers from accessing your info.
Not complying with the drug laws in Indonesia or Malaya is severely punished. (by execution). It does not stop that happening.
So if during the filming of a Rial Madrid game the TV camera takes an image of me in the grandstand, then I must be advised of the existence of that image? Or do signs outside the field carry that warning that I may be photographed?. And if somebody in the street snaps a picture or takes a video, do all the people in that picture have to be informed?
And what about somebody wearing webcam seeing eye glasses? Must he carry a sign warning everybody that they have been photographed?http://www.seeingwithsound.com/camera_glasses.htm
And I can just see the Spanish secret police running up to a suspected terrorist and telling him that his image has just been surreptitiously taken and stored.
Governments have a genuine need for those "damn pictures". It is not hard to imagine scenarios for following/trace back of terrorists, violent criminals etc. We have a "hall of mirrors" situation here.
Suppose some business competitor (or whatever) wanted to learn whether you were meeting with people to form a cartel or some such. So he sets his spy apps to scan a relevant time period and trace (using facial/movement/voice recognition technology) who you met. However you could have set a "watch for the spies" app which would warn you that he has been spying on your meetings.
Personally I do not feel threatened by that collection of information, because the inverse is that if somebody was using that information to spy on me, I would expect that my guardian apps would warn me of that spy. Could i suggest that you just learn to live with it?
Around the world (eg central London) there are cameras covering some public spaces. I would like to see the output of those taxpayer funded cameras on the www. Privacy should be a non issue. Our culture will have to change because privacy in public places has (like copyright) been destroyed by technology.
If you want privacy, rent your own space, put it in a Faraday box and sweep it for bugs.
Otherwise all you do by not making those images public is deprive all but the powerful, the wealthy and the hackers of the information gathered by publicly funded cameras.
As for the rape charges.. To me it's not "rape" to 1) initiate sex with a sleeping sex partner or 2) to not notice that a condom broke.
The first Swedish prosecutor apparently refused to prosecute. Then an ambitious prosecutor, inferring perhaps that Hillary was a premium victim of Assange, realized that a horrendous crime had been committed.
Can't blame the Swedes. They probably have no power to restrain their (probably independent) prosecutors.
Probably the crucial reason why we have small personal computers so widespread today is that Microsoft (after writing then selling IBM the IBM-DOS) then turned around and sold MS-DOS to the IBM clone makers. MS-DOS was of course written behind a firewall so as not to infringe the IBM-DOS contract. And IBM did not contest the issue, because the US trustbusters had just finished disassembling Bell into the babybells.
So maybe not a direct steal of IOS (or OSX or whatever), but Apple should be forced to offer OSX at a "reasonable" price, and the test of similarity of appearance should be weak.
Not that I am a fan of MS, but he was a major originator of the concept of "duplicating" OS and other software, and that turned out to benefit consumers.
Defamation and slander laws choke the free flow of true information. Nowadays everyone can have a blog, and any libelous info can be quickly confirmed or denied by the checking out the website of the alleged miscreant.
Of course the problem with implanting a new eye is the connections. But maybe growing the eye in situ, and stimulating neuronal growth into the (growing) retina?
At least you are lucky to be in the USA where gun ownership is guaranteed by your constitution. I also note with approval that in some states citizens can reverse laws or sack governors (Schwarzenegger e.g.). Pity that those rules are not at Federal level either there or anywhere here. (Oz).
I have heard of two models that might serve to limit political power.
1. The Greek democratic model. Select a few hundred or a few thousand citizens by lot every two years, and tell them they gotta legislate for a couple years. 2. Require that every piece of legislation expire after ten years. If it is really necessary legislation, legislators will re-enact it every decade.
I started out thinking the alarmists owned "the heartland institute.. "The Heartland Institute is a lovely group of folks who take issue with mainstream climate science. "
The UN's IPCC and UK's Stern are shills for governments desperate to find new sources of revenue. And what tax could have a stronger moral backing than a
Why is DHS involved in Kim Dotcom? Well it's because they have the executive powers to get things done and "somebody" forgot to require that there be a clear threat to US lives before DHS became involved in a matter. Why is the US signing copyright agreements with Australia?
It's all about regulatory capture. (see wikipedia). Those poor starving MAAFIA and RIAA and Microsoft and Google and the rest of the copyright/patent trolls are handing out or withholding their superpac contributions against results.
Are you in the US having a Presidential election this year by any chance?
Specifically a Henry George type tax on land till it's capital value gets nearer to zero, and royalty type taxes on easily recoverable minerals, and taxes on the EM spectrum. Oh and why not a 90% (sliding up to 99%) tax on copyright and patents fees that are requested be collected by government agencies?
The sacred text of Christianity is the new testament, which is about the life of Jesus told by his disciples. The sacred text of the Muslims is the Koran (which are Mahommed's recitals of what God said to him in the desert). In addition to the Koran there are books written about Mahommed's life, and Mahommed's did a lot of contentious things (like committing genocide against a Jewish tribe in Medina, or taking a tithe from terrorism, or dealing in slaves).
I am quite sure that lots of Nazis were "sane, friendly and understanding", but "judge by their actions, not their words".
Crap. We never had enough nukes to "wipe out all life on the planet fairly effectively". In fact I very much doubt that we ever had enough nukes to do any more than set back human civilization more than a century or so.
Just give a citation instead of this alarmist crap. You probably also think CO2 will "end civilization" which i would look up except you hide behind the "anonymous coward" nom de plume.
Copyright and patents are regulated monopolies. Monopoly is bad for business. Cancel the monopoly and reinvigorate business.
Do it in stages. Set expiry of patents and copyright to lesser of (say) 10 years or half of current unexpired period. And any new patent or copyright is for 8 years, and reduce that period by six months each successive year until copyrights and patents have disappeared.
"call me crazy for thinking I'd rather adapt to weather pattern changes than have my body try to adapt to carcinogens from current energy producing means".
It is possible to put all sorts of filters, precipitators and scrubbers on the exhaust of a power station. Where regulations requiring such equipment are enforced, these can clear all carcinogens from the exhaust.
OTOH the health aspects of subsonic vibration need research. There are many complaints from people who have wind farms built near their homes. Perhaps the solution is to require the wind farm corporations to own all the land for a mile (or whatever) around any windmill.
Cities with tall buildings affect wind patterns and the change in ground cover (bitumen roads instead of trees and grass) is known to produce local warming.
It seems reasonable that wind turbines would similarly affect wind patterns, and if the ground cover changed due to clearing trees, they might also affect radiation absorbtion.
There do seem to be a lot of complaints about subsonics emanating from those who have wind farms planted near to their homes. Perhaps government should finance some studies of the affect of such subsonics on health before allowing further plantations.
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I have read that document. It does not appear to provide any real protection, just provide a legislative framework for officials to harass innocent members of the public and tourists, while stopping anybody but government or the wealthy or foreign hackers from accessing your info.
I found your comment on another question educational and have posted a copy on my blog.
I will remove or alter it at your request.
it's at http://barvennon.com/ozdiary/ozdiary12051.html
"Not complying this can be severely punished"
Not complying with the drug laws in Indonesia or Malaya is severely punished. (by execution). It does not stop that happening.
So if during the filming of a Rial Madrid game the TV camera takes an image of me in the grandstand, then I must be advised of the existence of that image? Or do signs outside the field carry that warning that I may be photographed?. And if somebody in the street snaps a picture or takes a video, do all the people in that picture have to be informed?
And what about somebody wearing webcam seeing eye glasses? Must he carry a sign warning everybody that they have been photographed?http://www.seeingwithsound.com/camera_glasses.htm
And I can just see the Spanish secret police running up to a suspected terrorist and telling him that his image has just been surreptitiously taken and stored.
Governments have a genuine need for those "damn pictures". It is not hard to imagine scenarios for following/trace back of terrorists, violent criminals etc. We have a "hall of mirrors" situation here.
Suppose some business competitor (or whatever) wanted to learn whether you were meeting with people to form a cartel or some such. So he sets his spy apps to scan a relevant time period and trace (using facial/movement/voice recognition technology) who you met. However you could have set a "watch for the spies" app which would warn you that he has been spying on your meetings.
Personally I do not feel threatened by that collection of information, because the inverse is that if somebody was using that information to spy on me, I would expect that my guardian apps would warn me of that spy. Could i suggest that you just learn to live with it?
Around the world (eg central London) there are cameras covering some public spaces. I would like to see the output of those taxpayer funded cameras on the www. Privacy should be a non issue. Our culture will have to change because privacy in public places has (like copyright) been destroyed by technology.
If you want privacy, rent your own space, put it in a Faraday box and sweep it for bugs.
Otherwise all you do by not making those images public is deprive all but the powerful, the wealthy and the hackers of the information gathered by publicly funded cameras.
Then I would vote for him!
As for the rape charges.. To me it's not "rape" to
1) initiate sex with a sleeping sex partner or
2) to not notice that a condom broke.
The first Swedish prosecutor apparently refused to prosecute. Then an ambitious prosecutor, inferring perhaps that Hillary was a premium victim of Assange, realized that a horrendous crime had been committed.
Can't blame the Swedes. They probably have no power to restrain their (probably independent) prosecutors.
Yup. Or lose the benefit of copyright protection regulation.
Print media is shrinking fast as newspaper readers instead search the www and advertising moves to Google.
Are we witnessing a suicidal counterattack by non Murdoch media in an attempt to divert attention away from their own transgressions.
I get the feeling that Rebecca's real crime was to promote the David Cameron brand.
Probably the crucial reason why we have small personal computers so widespread today is that Microsoft (after writing then selling IBM the IBM-DOS) then turned around and sold MS-DOS to the IBM clone makers. MS-DOS was of course written behind a firewall so as not to infringe the IBM-DOS contract. And IBM did not contest the issue, because the US trustbusters had just finished disassembling Bell into the babybells.
So maybe not a direct steal of IOS (or OSX or whatever), but Apple should be forced to offer OSX at a "reasonable" price, and the test of similarity of appearance should be weak.
Not that I am a fan of MS, but he was a major originator of the concept of "duplicating" OS and other software, and that turned out to benefit consumers.
Defamation and slander laws choke the free flow of true information. Nowadays everyone can have a blog, and any libelous info can be quickly confirmed or denied by the checking out the website of the alleged miscreant.
Of course the problem with implanting a new eye is the connections. But maybe growing the eye in situ, and stimulating neuronal growth into the (growing) retina?
At least you are lucky to be in the USA where gun ownership is guaranteed by your constitution. I also note with approval that in some states citizens can reverse laws or sack governors (Schwarzenegger e.g.). Pity that those rules are not at Federal level either there or anywhere here. (Oz).
I have heard of two models that might serve to limit political power.
1. The Greek democratic model. Select a few hundred or a few thousand citizens by lot every two years, and tell them they gotta legislate for a couple years.
2. Require that every piece of legislation expire after ten years. If it is really necessary legislation, legislators will re-enact it every decade.
What do we call a boomerang that doesn't come back? That is a successful hit.
Very good comment. Wish I could mod u up to 5
The cops who form a cooperative with the dealers to stop amateur competition?
I started out thinking the alarmists owned "the heartland institute.. "The Heartland Institute is a lovely group of folks who take issue with mainstream climate science. "
Until I read to the end and realized the truth.
For those uninformed of the facts behind alarmism, read my blog of 2007 http://barvennon.com/ozdiary/ozdiary7071.html
The UN's IPCC and UK's Stern are shills for governments desperate to find new sources of revenue. And what tax could have a stronger moral backing than a
TAX TO SAVE THE WORLD??
Why is DHS involved in Kim Dotcom? Well it's because they have the executive powers to get things done and "somebody" forgot to require that there be a clear threat to US lives before DHS became involved in a matter. Why is the US signing copyright agreements with Australia?
It's all about regulatory capture. (see wikipedia). Those poor starving MAAFIA and RIAA and Microsoft and Google and the rest of the copyright/patent trolls are handing out or withholding their superpac contributions against results.
Are you in the US having a Presidential election this year by any chance?
Specifically a Henry George type tax on land till it's capital value gets nearer to zero, and royalty type taxes on easily recoverable minerals, and taxes on the EM spectrum. Oh and why not a 90% (sliding up to 99%) tax on copyright and patents fees that are requested be collected by government agencies?
You are mostly right.
But.
The sacred text of Christianity is the new testament, which is about the life of Jesus told by his disciples. The sacred text of the Muslims is the Koran (which are Mahommed's recitals of what God said to him in the desert). In addition to the Koran there are books written about Mahommed's life, and Mahommed's did a lot of contentious things (like committing genocide against a Jewish tribe in Medina, or taking a tithe from terrorism, or dealing in slaves).
I am quite sure that lots of Nazis were "sane, friendly and understanding", but "judge by their actions, not their words".
Yay!!
Crap. We never had enough nukes to "wipe out all life on the planet fairly effectively". In fact I very much doubt that we ever had enough nukes to do any more than set back human civilization more than a century or so.
Just give a citation instead of this alarmist crap. You probably also think CO2 will "end civilization" which i would look up except you hide behind the "anonymous coward" nom de plume.
Copyright and patents are regulated monopolies. Monopoly is bad for business. Cancel the monopoly and reinvigorate business.
Do it in stages. Set expiry of patents and copyright to lesser of (say) 10 years or half of current unexpired period. And any new patent or copyright is for 8 years, and reduce that period by six months each successive year until copyrights and patents have disappeared.
Your reference looks like tourist publicity. Visiting is not the same as living with it next door.
Do a google search of "research on health aspects of subsonic vibration wind farm".
You will notice that not much scholarly research appears to have been done. That is why I suggested the health aspects of wind farms needed research.
"call me crazy for thinking I'd rather adapt to weather pattern changes than have my body try to adapt to carcinogens from current energy producing means".
It is possible to put all sorts of filters, precipitators and scrubbers on the exhaust of a power station. Where regulations requiring such equipment are enforced, these can clear all carcinogens from the exhaust.
OTOH the health aspects of subsonic vibration need research. There are many complaints from people who have wind farms built near their homes. Perhaps the solution is to require the wind farm corporations to own all the land for a mile (or whatever) around any windmill.
Cities with tall buildings affect wind patterns and the change in ground cover (bitumen roads instead of trees and grass) is known to produce local warming.
It seems reasonable that wind turbines would similarly affect wind patterns, and if the ground cover changed due to clearing trees, they might also affect radiation absorbtion.
There do seem to be a lot of complaints about subsonics emanating from those who have wind farms planted near to their homes. Perhaps government should finance some studies of the affect of such subsonics on health before allowing further plantations.