I agree with you - but I would like to see 'roll-over-minutes'. If i happen togo over one month, but the previous months I did not then I should get a pass.
The positive of this - if each company advertises their rated speeds eventualyl they will lower prices or increase speeds at the same price to win over the other guy. Unless you live in areas like miney, Philadelphia, where comcast has a monopoly. Your other options are DSL or satellite which don't compete. No fiber in the foreseable future (originally due to Comcast lobbying to delay fiber installs, and now due to Verizon not installing fiber).
I would hope they had a "roll-over-minutes" plan. They would see this month you went over but all the previous months you went under so no biggy. If I don't hit my cap, but I pay for up to a cap I should be prorated somehow.
At the very least, being required to provide a DNA sample before you've been convicted of a crime is a loss of both liberty and property.
They already do this when you arrested...finger printing. Some states also mandate this if you want a drivers license/state ID. Don't recall if you need this for a passport, but I don't think you do.
Its information tied directly to you. Any mistake(not to mention malice) may tie you to a crime you didn't do. Of course government computers are never cracked, or abused.
Mistakes (including malicious ones) can be made, but it is rare and can be rectified. You can also be proactive about this by getting access to your information (read only) to view whats going on. So if there is a warrant for your arrest you can be proactive and head to a police station (with a lawyer) and say "hey this is crap", which is much better then them knocking on your door.
No, all this information centralized is bad. Besides its the first attack vector of the next world war.
Opinion, and tin-foil one.
I also think its hilariously funny that people can spot the 'slippery slope' of dna info, but deny or ignore the same thing in terms of firearm ownership.
This is completely false. Since you do not know me you can't know what I "spot" and what I "Ignore" or "deny". Same thing goes for the rest of the populace. To know this information you have to ask and get a truthful answer. I honestly believe this is OK - just like fingerprinting... precedence.
A corrupt government can intimidate people using "if you don't obey, we will commit a crime and plant your DNA" while wiping your spit off their face
GOv't can do this anyhow. You think if the gov't wanted to convict you of a crime, with DNA, they can't do something as simple as breaking into your house, take the fork you used at a restaurant and grab the saliva sample, use hair gained from the hair salon you just walked out of? Really if they want you they can get you, and this won't matter.
It invades my liberty by directly violating my right which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures.
When you are arrested you get finger-printed...this is another type of finger printing. It is no longer considered unreasonable once you are being processed. Also if they want they can make it part of the drivers license process - which is NOT a constitutional right.
You're quoting the Declaration of Independence, which is not binding law.
Never said it was law - but that is what people go back to and rightfully so. It is also a concise way of what people are looking for.
The relevant context is Amendment 4 of the Constitution: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated..."
Once you've been arrested it is no longer unreasonable to search you by your finger prints, DNA is the next step in the process. Finger printing is a unique signature of you, provided by you. DNA is a unique signature of you, provided by you.
By allowing law enforcement to have a global databank of the DNA of anyone arrested for any reason (even falsely) you're allowing innocent people to be linked to crime scenes that they simply passed through.
This statement is illogical. The gov't has a record of my finger prints. I have never been arrested, or convicted. I have never been processed by police. They got my finger prints when I went to get my drivers license the first time. So there is a database with my fingerprint (a unique signature like DNA)...I have never been linked to a crime - no company has ever denied me work, or a loan.
Another way, all the people in the database are assumed to be guilty until their DNA/fingerprints are shown to not match those found at the crime scene.
ORLY? Let's say there are 10 million people in the database. So they are all guilty until proven innocent? Can you see the subpeona list? More likely they take the DNA found and cross-reference it with the DB. Then when it is matched they have grounds to subpeona the person and haul the person in for questioning (with a lawyer if he asks for it) and court. Then it is up to a court-of-law to decide if you are guilty. This is no different then finger print DBs which have been in place for MANY years.
As for your corruption claim - sure this can hapepn. It can also happen with finger printing. That doesn't make this new crime-fighting tool bad it just means that we need to regulate it in a way so it is tamper-proof. So, for example, once they collect your DNA they cannot look for your DNA by typing your name in. They have to put the sample DNA found at the crime scene and it searches the records. If there is a match then it pops the persons name up. Utilize a read only database/archive structure. There are such devices that are read-only by nature. And obviously - as always - put in dual saftey controls.
You get finger/foot printed at birth. The FBI recommends it. Not sure if it is mandated by law, but it could be on a state/local level - if not on a fed level. Great if your kid gets kidnapped.
As long as the police are not giving this to my insurance company so they can deny me insurance then I am down for it. I don't break the law.
When someone gets arrested, don't they have their fingerprints/pictures taken when they are brought in? If that is the case this is just the next step...DNA another fingerprinting method. If it helps them catch criminals (e.g. rapists who were never identified/caught) then great.
They do need to keep the info secure and not give it to such organizations as health insurance companies.
Yes, because launching a big freakin' rocket (big enough to put stuff in orbit) will go unnoticed. Especially when you already have satellites in orbit looking for events like that. Do you really think that the militaries all over the world aren't keeping track of the stuff the other side has put up there?
First it's not rockets, it's missiles. Huge difference
Second not everyone has that technology right now to weaponize space. Launching a satellite is hard as it is, to launch a missile (safely) into space, and then have the technology that can launch it remotely and accurately is hard. Plus its HARD as hell for one satellite to spot another...space is a BIG FREAKIN place. Another thing you forget, since the missile is in space and needs to just go down (with some angle adjustments) it doesn't need a big firing engine or fuel tanks so the missile will be a lot smaller then our current ICBMs - a LOT smaller.
Yes, if you can orchestrate that one, magnificent strike that will take out a few hundred targets in fifteen minutes or less (with weapons coming from satellites that are scattered over several orbits all around the globe). Oh, and don't forget bagging all those missile subs, too, because each one you missed will mean a dozen nukes coming your way.
If you can get one missile into space you can get 1000 missiles to space. With computer technology, something required to get into space, and targetting technology (not exactly hard to come-by) do you think it is that difficult to launch all your missiles at different targets? It takes more then 15 minutes for leadership to get oranized and launch. 1) It has to be detected, 2) you have to get the person in supreme control of the weapons to a place where he/she can issue those orders 3) The people receiving those orders have to launch. In between all of that time you will have people arguing amongst each other trying to confirm if this is an actual attack or a meteor falling from space or just a glitch. It's not that easy...oh and btw, it's a lot less then 15 minutes from the time the missile leaves the silo.
With regards to submarine's with nuke capacity - the list of countries who can do that is smaller then the list of countries who HAVE nukes. Miniturization is very complex technology. Also, a submarine captain who has no idea there is a war going on (because they did not receive orders from their DEAD leadership) is not going to know to launch.
People are not in an uproar about this cause it's crappy technology - the group that can weaponize and keep space their own missile platform wins in a war where there are really no winners.
Go to your/etc/hosts file. (sample location: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\etc\HOSTS )
Open it in notepad (or other basic text editor like EditPlus)
Under the line "127.0.0.1 localhost" add your own line that will be
127.0.0.1 porn.spam.com
Basically each new line will start with 127.0.0.1 and then tab and include the place you are want to block.
Recommendation 1: Backup the file before editing it.
Recommendation 2: Go line and look for hosts files people have put available on the web. Copy it and save it. I once had a hosts file that was about 2 megs in size. Considering it is plain text that was a LOT of sites it blocked. It was my own little slice of heaven...though I had to becareful, it blocked sites that I enjoyed (e.g. Netflix).
Apparantly their metrics state the profits are positive; And as long as they are making profits the only retards are those who call them "retards" for continuing a profitable business venture. I hate pop-ups too, but if enough people buy stuff from pop-up links (and why not, not all of the products are viagra, porn, virus) they will continue to implement them.
Yes there is. The weapons are virtually undetectible until it's too late. So if you target a countries known military bases/silos/leadership from space you can prevent them from retaliating. It just takes a very shrot period of time for the missile to hit, and again detection is harder.
Conventional methods could mean a missile will take an hours to get there. In that time the receiving country can detect, arm and launch their missiles at you. So targetting their missile silo's is kind of pointless, and taking out their leadership is that much harder because they are evacuating to safe, hidden, bunkers.
1) Spend 4.5 billion pounds
2) Design pimp id cards
3)
4) Read pimp id cards on...hmm what happend to 3?
Present ID cards in the US, drivers license, are easily linked to a lot of your personal info - including Social, address, name, picture, drivers/criminal record, and more.
The problem - each state has it's own ID, and worse, each state has MULTIPLE types. Bad enough there are 50 different state IDs (also one for DC, and one for Puerto Rico) but when they each have multiples (older IDs, IDs for under 21, IDs for under 18). It gets silly.
One ID...Each state can maintain it's own rules about drivers age, but lets have one UNIFORM looking ID and spend a lot of money making it rediculously hard to clone.
Chances are, when the gamer is in the position of a fire he will act like any other 8 year old school girl...scratch that, the 8 year old school girl will do what her training in school taught her (walk out calmly in line), while the 35 year old gamer will run around screaming or stay huddled in a corner "oh god my life is flashing before my eyes and I realized I wasted it on computer games". Same thing in a gun situation - who here believes Counter Strike really teaches gamers how to be (counter)terrorists?
Marines and Navy seals would be the beneficiaries of this technology. Though sailors may need it if they are on shore leave in a different country and something happens for them to have to fight/flee.
Or the people who bitched about games are not involved in this program, and those who are for games are involved in this program? You know the news we get does not originate from the same person, it is from various people/groups.
Now someone just needs to hack the game, start out with a gun, and shoot up the students during the drill so he can get out faster.
Simulators can give you some insight, but it is far different then actually doing it in a physical environment. Ever drive a racing car game? It's a bit different then driving a racing car - hence why you smash into the wall all the time in the game. For this it would be great to learn the routes, but they need to introduce stress into the situation. At the very least the game, while designed to look like the building, will not look just like it (cartoon pixels of a wall do not look like a wall).
As for gamers doing things that someone normally one would not do, how about doing a triple twist jump while putting two shots into the heads of your classmates and landing safely on the other side?:)
Thank you for proving my point. That's a great company. It is one that says "we are giving you an option, if you don't want the extra bell/whistle of a racing stripe you don't have to have or pay for it." So what's wrong with this method? Or should I be forced to buy the Ultimate edition, pay an extra 990,000 for two features I do not need?
That's interesting. How much does Apple charge for OSX, and how many retail versions do they sell at one time?
Irrelevant to this conversation. We are talking about Windows not OS-X. We could also ask how many versions of Linux is out there? And you can't even begin to compare the price of a PC vs Apple. PCs are cheaper, they have been historically and they are currently. Apple has been great on maintaing that throughout the years. Also, I'd imagine someone might get confused between: Cheetah/Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, and Leopard.
When I bought windows XP i installed it on my latop and desktop. I would call their support number (because of 3 installs you had to). I would speak with the person and they asked if it was installed on multiple computers - I said my laptop and desktop. They gave me the keys I needed. This has been done, on my end, multiple times without ever getting any problems. So not sure why they would do that for me if it was some kind of exception.
Where *I* got the idea? Do you really think everyone out there can afford a computer? Hell not everyone in the US can afford a computer. You should google it. So if a standard computer costs $400 - which is a HELL of a lot of money in 3rd world countries - then reducing the price (which means OS and hardware has to be cheaper) by $300 would make it within reach of the person or gov't aide (when you are trying to provide tens-of thousands of computers 75% savings is huge)
I think I did this before, but my answer got erased. I would like it to be more modular. For example - yes notify me if my firewall is disabled, but don't notify me about user account control (which is the one item i hate).
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I agree with you - but I would like to see 'roll-over-minutes'. If i happen togo over one month, but the previous months I did not then I should get a pass.
The positive of this - if each company advertises their rated speeds eventualyl they will lower prices or increase speeds at the same price to win over the other guy. Unless you live in areas like miney, Philadelphia, where comcast has a monopoly. Your other options are DSL or satellite which don't compete. No fiber in the foreseable future (originally due to Comcast lobbying to delay fiber installs, and now due to Verizon not installing fiber).
I would hope they had a "roll-over-minutes" plan. They would see this month you went over but all the previous months you went under so no biggy. If I don't hit my cap, but I pay for up to a cap I should be prorated somehow.
At the very least, being required to provide a DNA sample before you've been convicted of a crime is a loss of both liberty and property.
They already do this when you arrested...finger printing. Some states also mandate this if you want a drivers license/state ID. Don't recall if you need this for a passport, but I don't think you do.
Its information tied directly to you. Any mistake(not to mention malice) may tie you to a crime you didn't do. Of course government computers are never cracked, or abused.
Mistakes (including malicious ones) can be made, but it is rare and can be rectified. You can also be proactive about this by getting access to your information (read only) to view whats going on. So if there is a warrant for your arrest you can be proactive and head to a police station (with a lawyer) and say "hey this is crap", which is much better then them knocking on your door.
No, all this information centralized is bad. Besides its the first attack vector of the next world war.
Opinion, and tin-foil one.
I also think its hilariously funny that people can spot the 'slippery slope' of dna info, but deny or ignore the same thing in terms of firearm ownership.
This is completely false. Since you do not know me you can't know what I "spot" and what I "Ignore" or "deny". Same thing goes for the rest of the populace. To know this information you have to ask and get a truthful answer. I honestly believe this is OK - just like fingerprinting... precedence.
A corrupt government can intimidate people using "if you don't obey, we will commit a crime and plant your DNA" while wiping your spit off their face
GOv't can do this anyhow. You think if the gov't wanted to convict you of a crime, with DNA, they can't do something as simple as breaking into your house, take the fork you used at a restaurant and grab the saliva sample, use hair gained from the hair salon you just walked out of? Really if they want you they can get you, and this won't matter.
It invades my liberty by directly violating my right which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures.
When you are arrested you get finger-printed...this is another type of finger printing. It is no longer considered unreasonable once you are being processed. Also if they want they can make it part of the drivers license process - which is NOT a constitutional right.
You're quoting the Declaration of Independence, which is not binding law.
Never said it was law - but that is what people go back to and rightfully so. It is also a concise way of what people are looking for.
The relevant context is Amendment 4 of the Constitution: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated..."
Once you've been arrested it is no longer unreasonable to search you by your finger prints, DNA is the next step in the process. Finger printing is a unique signature of you, provided by you. DNA is a unique signature of you, provided by you.
By allowing law enforcement to have a global databank of the DNA of anyone arrested for any reason (even falsely) you're allowing innocent people to be linked to crime scenes that they simply passed through.
This statement is illogical. The gov't has a record of my finger prints. I have never been arrested, or convicted. I have never been processed by police. They got my finger prints when I went to get my drivers license the first time. So there is a database with my fingerprint (a unique signature like DNA)...I have never been linked to a crime - no company has ever denied me work, or a loan.
Do you
Another way, all the people in the database are assumed to be guilty until their DNA/fingerprints are shown to not match those found at the crime scene.
ORLY? Let's say there are 10 million people in the database. So they are all guilty until proven innocent? Can you see the subpeona list? More likely they take the DNA found and cross-reference it with the DB. Then when it is matched they have grounds to subpeona the person and haul the person in for questioning (with a lawyer if he asks for it) and court. Then it is up to a court-of-law to decide if you are guilty. This is no different then finger print DBs which have been in place for MANY years.
As for your corruption claim - sure this can hapepn. It can also happen with finger printing. That doesn't make this new crime-fighting tool bad it just means that we need to regulate it in a way so it is tamper-proof. So, for example, once they collect your DNA they cannot look for your DNA by typing your name in. They have to put the sample DNA found at the crime scene and it searches the records. If there is a match then it pops the persons name up. Utilize a read only database/archive structure. There are such devices that are read-only by nature. And obviously - as always - put in dual saftey controls.
And per Obama's rules he is not allowed to work on projects relating to his previous industry. So he is out of the RIAA loop.
/. so it has to be insightful.
BTW your post is not insightful, maybe funny - more like trolling/flamebait...except this is
So, do tell, how will your pursuit of life, liberty and happiness be stopped if law enforcement has your DNA?
You get finger/foot printed at birth. The FBI recommends it. Not sure if it is mandated by law, but it could be on a state/local level - if not on a fed level. Great if your kid gets kidnapped.
As long as the police are not giving this to my insurance company so they can deny me insurance then I am down for it. I don't break the law.
When someone gets arrested, don't they have their fingerprints/pictures taken when they are brought in? If that is the case this is just the next step...DNA another fingerprinting method. If it helps them catch criminals (e.g. rapists who were never identified/caught) then great.
They do need to keep the info secure and not give it to such organizations as health insurance companies.
Yes, because launching a big freakin' rocket (big enough to put stuff in orbit) will go unnoticed. Especially when you already have satellites in orbit looking for events like that. Do you really think that the militaries all over the world aren't keeping track of the stuff the other side has put up there?
First it's not rockets, it's missiles. Huge difference
Second not everyone has that technology right now to weaponize space. Launching a satellite is hard as it is, to launch a missile (safely) into space, and then have the technology that can launch it remotely and accurately is hard. Plus its HARD as hell for one satellite to spot another...space is a BIG FREAKIN place. Another thing you forget, since the missile is in space and needs to just go down (with some angle adjustments) it doesn't need a big firing engine or fuel tanks so the missile will be a lot smaller then our current ICBMs - a LOT smaller.
Yes, if you can orchestrate that one, magnificent strike that will take out a few hundred targets in fifteen minutes or less (with weapons coming from satellites that are scattered over several orbits all around the globe). Oh, and don't forget bagging all those missile subs, too, because each one you missed will mean a dozen nukes coming your way.
If you can get one missile into space you can get 1000 missiles to space. With computer technology, something required to get into space, and targetting technology (not exactly hard to come-by) do you think it is that difficult to launch all your missiles at different targets? It takes more then 15 minutes for leadership to get oranized and launch. 1) It has to be detected, 2) you have to get the person in supreme control of the weapons to a place where he/she can issue those orders 3) The people receiving those orders have to launch. In between all of that time you will have people arguing amongst each other trying to confirm if this is an actual attack or a meteor falling from space or just a glitch. It's not that easy...oh and btw, it's a lot less then 15 minutes from the time the missile leaves the silo.
With regards to submarine's with nuke capacity - the list of countries who can do that is smaller then the list of countries who HAVE nukes. Miniturization is very complex technology. Also, a submarine captain who has no idea there is a war going on (because they did not receive orders from their DEAD leadership) is not going to know to launch.
People are not in an uproar about this cause it's crappy technology - the group that can weaponize and keep space their own missile platform wins in a war where there are really no winners.
Go to your /etc/hosts file. (sample location: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\etc\HOSTS )
Open it in notepad (or other basic text editor like EditPlus)
Under the line "127.0.0.1 localhost" add your own line that will be
127.0.0.1 porn.spam.com
Basically each new line will start with 127.0.0.1 and then tab and include the place you are want to block.
Recommendation 1: Backup the file before editing it.
Recommendation 2: Go line and look for hosts files people have put available on the web. Copy it and save it. I once had a hosts file that was about 2 megs in size. Considering it is plain text that was a LOT of sites it blocked. It was my own little slice of heaven...though I had to becareful, it blocked sites that I enjoyed (e.g. Netflix).
Apparantly their metrics state the profits are positive; And as long as they are making profits the only retards are those who call them "retards" for continuing a profitable business venture. I hate pop-ups too, but if enough people buy stuff from pop-up links (and why not, not all of the products are viagra, porn, virus) they will continue to implement them.
1) Ban arming space
2) Secretly arm space
3)...
4) Blow the crap out of everyone, from space, and celebrate in the nuclear holocaust
Yes there is. The weapons are virtually undetectible until it's too late. So if you target a countries known military bases/silos/leadership from space you can prevent them from retaliating. It just takes a very shrot period of time for the missile to hit, and again detection is harder.
Conventional methods could mean a missile will take an hours to get there. In that time the receiving country can detect, arm and launch their missiles at you. So targetting their missile silo's is kind of pointless, and taking out their leadership is that much harder because they are evacuating to safe, hidden, bunkers.
You had me at " give Bill O'Reilly and co heart attacks."
1) Spend 4.5 billion pounds ...hmm what happend to 3?
2) Design pimp id cards
3)
4) Read pimp id cards on
Present ID cards in the US, drivers license, are easily linked to a lot of your personal info - including Social, address, name, picture, drivers/criminal record, and more.
The problem - each state has it's own ID, and worse, each state has MULTIPLE types. Bad enough there are 50 different state IDs (also one for DC, and one for Puerto Rico) but when they each have multiples (older IDs, IDs for under 21, IDs for under 18). It gets silly.
One ID...Each state can maintain it's own rules about drivers age, but lets have one UNIFORM looking ID and spend a lot of money making it rediculously hard to clone.
Chances are, when the gamer is in the position of a fire he will act like any other 8 year old school girl...scratch that, the 8 year old school girl will do what her training in school taught her (walk out calmly in line), while the 35 year old gamer will run around screaming or stay huddled in a corner "oh god my life is flashing before my eyes and I realized I wasted it on computer games". Same thing in a gun situation - who here believes Counter Strike really teaches gamers how to be (counter)terrorists?
Marines and Navy seals would be the beneficiaries of this technology. Though sailors may need it if they are on shore leave in a different country and something happens for them to have to fight/flee.
Or the people who bitched about games are not involved in this program, and those who are for games are involved in this program? You know the news we get does not originate from the same person, it is from various people/groups.
Now someone just needs to hack the game, start out with a gun, and shoot up the students during the drill so he can get out faster.
Simulators can give you some insight, but it is far different then actually doing it in a physical environment. Ever drive a racing car game? It's a bit different then driving a racing car - hence why you smash into the wall all the time in the game. For this it would be great to learn the routes, but they need to introduce stress into the situation. At the very least the game, while designed to look like the building, will not look just like it (cartoon pixels of a wall do not look like a wall).
:)
As for gamers doing things that someone normally one would not do, how about doing a triple twist jump while putting two shots into the heads of your classmates and landing safely on the other side?
He....doesn't.....have.....a.....monopoly.....
Thank you for proving my point. That's a great company. It is one that says "we are giving you an option, if you don't want the extra bell/whistle of a racing stripe you don't have to have or pay for it." So what's wrong with this method? Or should I be forced to buy the Ultimate edition, pay an extra 990,000 for two features I do not need?
That's interesting. How much does Apple charge for OSX, and how many retail versions do they sell at one time?
Irrelevant to this conversation. We are talking about Windows not OS-X. We could also ask how many versions of Linux is out there? And you can't even begin to compare the price of a PC vs Apple. PCs are cheaper, they have been historically and they are currently. Apple has been great on maintaing that throughout the years. Also, I'd imagine someone might get confused between: Cheetah/Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, and Leopard.
When I bought windows XP i installed it on my latop and desktop. I would call their support number (because of 3 installs you had to). I would speak with the person and they asked if it was installed on multiple computers - I said my laptop and desktop. They gave me the keys I needed. This has been done, on my end, multiple times without ever getting any problems. So not sure why they would do that for me if it was some kind of exception.
Where *I* got the idea? Do you really think everyone out there can afford a computer? Hell not everyone in the US can afford a computer. You should google it. So if a standard computer costs $400 - which is a HELL of a lot of money in 3rd world countries - then reducing the price (which means OS and hardware has to be cheaper) by $300 would make it within reach of the person or gov't aide (when you are trying to provide tens-of thousands of computers 75% savings is huge)
I think I did this before, but my answer got erased. I would like it to be more modular. For example - yes notify me if my firewall is disabled, but don't notify me about user account control (which is the one item i hate).
But thank you for the link!