"If there is evil, harmful data coming through our borders on laptops, then surely there is also evil data in people's minds. Should we find a way to search those too?"
This is precisely what they're doing with their new Behavior Detection Officers and other subversive procedures.
If you follow TFA links (which includes the sneaky commission referral from newatlantis), it leads to a book on Amazon called "The 4 Hour Workweek".
If you travel that link and read the first review, it includes some very accurate information about this global outsourcing issue we're all facing as we try to cram even more work into a finite span of time:
"Finally, throughout the book Mr. Ferris keeps referring to the New Rich. Despite all his attempts at creating a new paradigm, it appears that the only difference between the New Rich and the Old Rich is that the old rich are capitalists that actually produce things that society needs, such as railroads and software, while the new rich sell things like unregulated nutritional supplements."
0. Research your purchase to verify compatibility with your environment first, before buying.
Seriously... do you buy furniture without measuring the space it will occupy? Buy electronics without checking the voltage requirements and plug type? Food without reading the ingredients?
Come on, if you blindly buy some hardware without checking whether it will work with your other hardware, your OS and your peripherals... you have only yourself to blame.
Call it a 'vendor problem' all you like but that still doesn't give you your freedom. The proprietary software that supports the hardware on the other hand... well...even though its encumbered crappy licensing terms... but it actually works.
Closed, proprietary hardware doesn't give you that freedom either, so it still remains a vendor problem.
And how is the "proprietary software that supports the hardware" (through secret, exclusive licensing terms) providing you with that "freedom" you mention?
I sympathize with your POV, but this simply isn't true. If the hardware is closed (still lots of wireless, some raid, some nic, some ACPI, some weird usb devices like webcams and such, graphics hardware), you're going to have a hell of a time getting linux to recognize it.
Fortunately that's a vendor problem, not a Linux problem, so we don't have to worry about it.
If the vendors don't provide documentation or aren't cooperative with our efforts to support their hardware, then they simply don't gain a huge amount of users purchasing and using their hardware.
No 'probs' with licensing maybe, but beyond that, you can expect plenty of 'probs' running anything modern in terms of hardware or software on it.
I think I missed your point here. Linux runs on more hardware, more architectures and more platforms than Windows ever has. Linux has support for hardware, protocols, filesystems and technologies LONG before Windows does. Linux had the first, working Wireless USB drivers and specification before Microsoft even thought about it. Linux has more software applications available to it (by several orders of magnitude), and even runs most Windows software if necessary.
So what exactly were you trying to say above? Because I missed it. If you want something that supports current, bleeding edge hardware and software, Linux is the only way to go. If you want something that supports 15+ year old hardware, Linux is the only way to go.
If you want to play games on your computer and not much else, Windows is probably a good fit.
If by "outstripping", you mean supply is drastically higher than demand, then I agree. The numbers are out there. We are extracting FAR more oil from the ground than we are using, by several million barrels a week.
hence the increase in the price of the fuels based on it (you may have noticed it yourself or heard other people talking about it)
Actually the price of oil is rising because it is now being traded as a commodity on the stock exchange, because it out-values the US dollar. $140/barrel is not because of demand or production, it is because it is worth more than the US dollar to trade it. Again, look it up.
Actually, not quite true. If you have say... some AJAX'y stuff running on your public website, which is GPL'd, and it provides some Javascript hooks which you've modified, even though you technically aren't "giving" them away, you ARE distributing them, through the browser, to clients who request content from your ASP services.
RAID-Z2 can survive two drive failures; three failures will kill the pool.
That's interesting, because the Linux implementations do not suffer these flaws. Look at the Drobo for a hardware device that implements exactly this, runtime.
This kind of shit -- that is, requiring apps to have the "blessing" of the device manufacturer or service provider to work -- ought to be illegal!
Even more important, is that they've now tied the PHONE to a specific version of a specific application running on a specific desktop operating system (Windows or Mac).
Now the iPhone requires that you OWN a computer, to be able to use it, even as just a phone. You literally can't even use it as a plain old phone or a plain old mp3 player, without connecting it through iTunes to the web.
Absolutely ridiculous, and it will burn a lot of people who quite literally do not have computers.
What makes you think you aren't already "leasing" it? Windows already tells you this, and any music or other media you purchase these days is not "owned", you are "borrowing" it.
Even more damning is that there is hardly a website in existence that doesn't have SOMETHING on it -- a graphic, photo, quote, musical background -- that is, by the strictest standard of the law, an infringement of someone's copyright. Just viewing the website puts those items in your cache -- voila, you are now guilty...please hand over the computer quietly and there won't be any trouble.
I think you've hit the nail right on the head here. This isn't about IP Enforcement at all, it's about extending the right to seize anything the government wants, under the guise of "IP Enforcement". They tapped millions of phones under the guise of "preventing terrorism", and still continue to do so, even to the point of making the telecommunications companies retroactively immune to prosecution.
This is just an extension of that. This administration wants everything. They believe they have a right to see, hear and seize anything they want, for any reason, or no reason at all, with no justification. They crave "data", and they just want it and you are expected to just yield and hand it over.
And this is yet another reason why AES256 in double containers should always be the rule, period. Let them seize something, they won't be able to get into it to actually verify there's any infringement there, and attempting to force me to "unlock" that data will be a violation of my 4th and 5th Amendment rights. Until they can prove those rights are no longer viable, they have no case.
You mean exactly like the sync project they've had for a few years now?
FTFP:
The goal of this project is to make it possible to sync your calendar data to your palm handheld. The way to do this is create a framework, so it is possible to make it run on multiple platforms without rewriting everthing.
Since the airline industry is a private industry, not a part of the government (nor is the TSA), they can simply ban you from flying, forever. The option to fly is not a "Right" granted to us by the Constitution, fortunately or unfortunately.
It is no different from a Circle-K gas station kicking you out for loitering. It's their property and they can set their own rules and guidelines (within the boundaries provided to them by local, state and federal regulations, of course).
Absolutely not. I ride Amtrak 5 days a week (10 separate trains) and have for the last 3 months. I travel 275 miles a day via Amtrak, and they have never ONCE asked for my ID. This encompasses probably 30 different conductors and train operators. Never once was I asked to identify myself, and nobody around me ever was either.
You can't get a boarding pass without showing your physical photo ID (at least in the US, where TSA has jurisdiction). So how did you "lose" your ID from the point where you checked in and picked up your boarding pass, and the point where you got to the metal detectors and security checkpoints?
I call bogus on this. If this was really for security reasons, a photo ID would be required 100% of the time.
You should be looking into i2p and Freenet as possible methods to route your traffic. Tor is nice for anonymizing traffic, but definitely not for securing it.
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This is precisely what they're doing with their new Behavior Detection Officers and other subversive procedures.
If you follow TFA links (which includes the sneaky commission referral from newatlantis), it leads to a book on Amazon called "The 4 Hour Workweek".
If you travel that link and read the first review, it includes some very accurate information about this global outsourcing issue we're all facing as we try to cram even more work into a finite span of time:
Well put.
This should be easy to patch: STOP USING WINDOWS!!
Actually, it's because they use the verbage "Innocent until proven guilty".
Not unless proven guilty, but until.
This presumes that we're all guilty, it's just a matter of time until they find out what to charge us with.
0. Research your purchase to verify compatibility with your environment first, before buying.
Seriously... do you buy furniture without measuring the space it will occupy? Buy electronics without checking the voltage requirements and plug type? Food without reading the ingredients?
Come on, if you blindly buy some hardware without checking whether it will work with your other hardware, your OS and your peripherals... you have only yourself to blame.
Closed, proprietary hardware doesn't give you that freedom either, so it still remains a vendor problem.
And how is the "proprietary software that supports the hardware" (through secret, exclusive licensing terms) providing you with that "freedom" you mention?
Linux != linux, so the subtle clarification matters.
Fortunately that's a vendor problem, not a Linux problem, so we don't have to worry about it.
If the vendors don't provide documentation or aren't cooperative with our efforts to support their hardware, then they simply don't gain a huge amount of users purchasing and using their hardware.
Not a Linux problem.
I think I missed your point here. Linux runs on more hardware, more architectures and more platforms than Windows ever has. Linux has support for hardware, protocols, filesystems and technologies LONG before Windows does. Linux had the first, working Wireless USB drivers and specification before Microsoft even thought about it. Linux has more software applications available to it (by several orders of magnitude), and even runs most Windows software if necessary.
So what exactly were you trying to say above? Because I missed it. If you want something that supports current, bleeding edge hardware and software, Linux is the only way to go. If you want something that supports 15+ year old hardware, Linux is the only way to go.
If you want to play games on your computer and not much else, Windows is probably a good fit.
If by "outstripping", you mean supply is drastically higher than demand, then I agree. The numbers are out there. We are extracting FAR more oil from the ground than we are using, by several million barrels a week.
Actually the price of oil is rising because it is now being traded as a commodity on the stock exchange, because it out-values the US dollar. $140/barrel is not because of demand or production, it is because it is worth more than the US dollar to trade it. Again, look it up.
Actually, not quite true. If you have say... some AJAX'y stuff running on your public website, which is GPL'd, and it provides some Javascript hooks which you've modified, even though you technically aren't "giving" them away, you ARE distributing them, through the browser, to clients who request content from your ASP services.
That's interesting, because the Linux implementations do not suffer these flaws. Look at the Drobo for a hardware device that implements exactly this, runtime.
Even more important, is that they've now tied the PHONE to a specific version of a specific application running on a specific desktop operating system (Windows or Mac).
Now the iPhone requires that you OWN a computer, to be able to use it, even as just a phone. You literally can't even use it as a plain old phone or a plain old mp3 player, without connecting it through iTunes to the web.
Absolutely ridiculous, and it will burn a lot of people who quite literally do not have computers.
What makes you think you aren't already "leasing" it? Windows already tells you this, and any music or other media you purchase these days is not "owned", you are "borrowing" it.
We've been "leasing" things for awhile now.
I think you've hit the nail right on the head here. This isn't about IP Enforcement at all, it's about extending the right to seize anything the government wants, under the guise of "IP Enforcement". They tapped millions of phones under the guise of "preventing terrorism", and still continue to do so, even to the point of making the telecommunications companies retroactively immune to prosecution.
This is just an extension of that. This administration wants everything. They believe they have a right to see, hear and seize anything they want, for any reason, or no reason at all, with no justification. They crave "data", and they just want it and you are expected to just yield and hand it over.
And this is yet another reason why AES256 in double containers should always be the rule, period. Let them seize something, they won't be able to get into it to actually verify there's any infringement there, and attempting to force me to "unlock" that data will be a violation of my 4th and 5th Amendment rights. Until they can prove those rights are no longer viable, they have no case.
FTFP:
Since the airline industry is a private industry, not a part of the government (nor is the TSA), they can simply ban you from flying, forever. The option to fly is not a "Right" granted to us by the Constitution, fortunately or unfortunately.
It is no different from a Circle-K gas station kicking you out for loitering. It's their property and they can set their own rules and guidelines (within the boundaries provided to them by local, state and federal regulations, of course).
Absolutely not. I ride Amtrak 5 days a week (10 separate trains) and have for the last 3 months. I travel 275 miles a day via Amtrak, and they have never ONCE asked for my ID. This encompasses probably 30 different conductors and train operators. Never once was I asked to identify myself, and nobody around me ever was either.
You can't get a boarding pass without showing your physical photo ID (at least in the US, where TSA has jurisdiction). So how did you "lose" your ID from the point where you checked in and picked up your boarding pass, and the point where you got to the metal detectors and security checkpoints?
I call bogus on this. If this was really for security reasons, a photo ID would be required 100% of the time.
Security theatre indeed.
I find spam to be abusive, harassing, annoying and severe. How can I use this potential new legislation to nail spammers to the wall?
Wasn't the whole point of breaking up the telecommunications monopolies specifically to STOP this kind of re-merging in the future?
Who do we have now? Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile. I'd call that a failed attempt at making sure there are no monopolies in this space.
What you seek is called the WaveBubble project. Fully documented, downloadable PCB schematics and so on.
Herein lies the problem. We CAN'T read THEIR mail!.
There is no oversight. We can't watch the watchers.
We are living in an unbalanced surveillance society, where the core system of checks and balances has been thrown out the window.
You should be looking into i2p and Freenet as possible methods to route your traffic. Tor is nice for anonymizing traffic, but definitely not for securing it.