But we, "the people", are the commodity, not the product. Without us, google is nothing. Its lucky for them we havent got wind of this info yet. Some day, one company will go to far. And there will be mass defection and it will die. And all of these service suppliers who are selling us to advertisers will take note and be scared and display respect. But before that happens, we must become aware of what we are. We are the supply.
Everyone I knew who used msn/hotmail or yahoo, now uses gmail. This has been true for more then a year. The only alternative I ever see anymore is someone who uses the domain name of their ISP. I think these are just people who use the first email address handed to them.
At one time it may have tricked a web agent scraping for emails, but if you just have text like "joe at blow dot com" it is likely equivelent to having "joe@blow.com". I see no reason why one would be harder to match then the other in a regex. Its security by obscurity whos time has passed. Like trying to use leet passwords... ur only making it harder for those who really need to use it.
I live in Canada and yet, my scale is set to pounds. Everyone I know still describes their weight in pounds and height in feet/inches. Just the other day I had a European in my place who wanted to weigh herself in kgs. So I turned it over to switch to metric and saw that it had 3 settings. Pounds, Kilos and Stones. "Stones"??? who uses that? Ireland? Estonia?
why couldnt a human beat it by beginning to make a symbol and finishing with another? Seems like if u know its strategy, you could beat it every time by starting with a fist, opening to partial paper and finishing with fist.
We hate any country who tries to acquire nuclear weapons.
All countries would be better off with nuclear weapons. I mean they would have more negotiating power. This is just true for the countries who have them already.
America really hates countries that have a lot of oil and do not provide a large portion of their exports to them. Iran is #3 as far as world oil reserves. Iran exports to China, Japan, India, South Korea, Italy, Turkey, Spain and a few others. They are supplying a lot of the worlds oil and the US gets none. They are cruising for an invasion and in order to have support of the people when/if this happens, our government scares us into believing they are a dangerous country because of their nuclear dreams. Fact is... all countries want the bomb. Not even to use it as a weapon, but rather as a means to negotiate better trade.
I live in Canada and we are the #1 supplier of oil to the US. If we decided not to share oil with the US, all of our current nuclear programs would suddenly become a desire to make a nuclear bomb and media would teach you quickly to fear and hate us. This would be required in order to have u support the inevitable invassion.
About sharing and self esteem as they all failed. School hasn't been about thinking or ability for decades. It's about feeling good about mediocrity.
Actually, this seems to be a rather good description of religion and how it makes one feel. Religion has been supplying happiness or contentment to the average unfullfilled person for millenia. The movement of this "benefit" into our schools is a more recent development.
I think reality is that most lives are mediocre and religion and now school provides a cooping mechanism for this. Time will tell if this is a good or bad thing for our country.
Many people of faith seem to feel that their belief provides them with a call to action. But instead from the outside I see it as a call to passiveness and indifference. The concept of a judge in the sky, implies that bad deed can be dealt with in some afterlife. To me this is a poor mindset that allows passive contentment that all will be resolved in some other reality in a fair way.
some quick examples are: rich men will have a tough time getting to heaven. The meek shall inherit the earth. Turn the other cheek. And of course the general concept of after life judgement. Im sure the real list is much longer. But each of these seems to tell the faithful: dont worry about ur crappy life and dont worry about those who are taking so much from u... for all will be dealt with after they/you die. So just put up with all the crap for now, because justice is coming... just not in ur current life.
It is my opinion that all justice occurs in this reality and that those who escape life without justice basically got away with it. I mean we ourselves create our own ying/yang. Perhaps I would feel better about it with a little faith.
There is not enough information in the article to see if I am able to pass this test. There are 9 fertilizer levels and 6 containers. Meaning, I assume there is only space to test 6 of the levels and infer the others. What information about the fertilizer for each was given? Was there a consistent variation of levels across the 9? And was there more then one type of fertilizer and how was it varied? How am I supposed to know whether or not I could pass?
Given the provided information, I will state that level 7 was the best fertilizer because this is more then 1/2 but not too much. And 7 is a faithful number, and we all know that logic is simply an extension of faith.
Its no surprise that the US and Isreal would be involved with damaging Iranian production. Its all they talk about. However, I would be pissed if I was Germany, because the virus attacked Siemens products. It really makes this company look weak on security like Microsoft.
I just want to see a 3d printer that it entirely made out of 3d printed parts and has the ability to assemble these parts and has the ability to move and find other 3d printers to melt down and make more in its own image. Then Id like to see a set of instructions that change over time making some useless, defective and sometimes random improvements over the original. That is all I want.
I dont think u r up to date on the latest voice analysis tools and speed at which it can operate. There is an article in wikipedia about "the door" in a major telecom hub/trunk that was run by the NSA and it describes the computing hardware/software that was being used. Shortly after, George Bush requested that the media outlets stop talking about this and that it was in the interest of US national security not to discuss it. And at that time, the media listened to every request in the name of national security.
Anyhow, the original post u are replying too is stating that all calls could be recorded permanently. Regardless of where voice analysis stands today, the data will always be availalbe for analysis in the future for whatever technology exists at that time.
I dont have issue with this being used for securing the country. But I expect such data will be suseptible to analysis for political reasons. For example, I think it would be quite easy to analyse voice communications in order to have an accurate estimation of exactly how each citizen is going to vote and for which party.
Let's see. Average 20 minutes/day * 300M people / 2 is about 2 M days/day. So you need to process 2 M calls at a time to keep up. Seems like it would take a moderate sized supercomputer to process 2M audio signals simultaneously looking for keywords. 100 Teraflops would be plenty,
Im not sure why u divided by 2 in the above calculation
Here is my estimate given that voice use 64kbits/s and ur estimate of each person speaking for 20 minutes on average:
300,000,000 people x 20 mins x 60 sec per min x 64kbits per sec / 8 bits per byte / 10^9 bytes per Terabyte = 2880 Terabytes of recorded data for all calls in the US
Or 2.8 Teraflops of bandwidth recording per day
Total cost in hard drive space to record this at aprox $50/terabyte = $144k per day
Annual cost in recording all US calls would be = $52.5 million
This does not include the cost of actually housing all that data and drives and computer systems in order to store, maintain and process the data. It would require a building of some size and staffing and privacy to keep such an operation secret. But it is completely possible to do this if it was a desire of the NSA.
It may be difficult to sift through all this data in real time and determine what is or is not of value for security. However, it would be an awesome historical investigation tool in which all conversations of any person could be back-tracked after a person of interest has been identified.
If I was the NSA and I had the power to do this and I didnt have anyone to answer to regarding the privacy concerns of the public... well this is exactly what I would do. Because it would be such a powerful reverse investigation tool. Furthermore, new technology such as voice recognition improvements or emotional state based on voice inflections and other unknown and future technologies could be applied back across the data set over time. A data set like this would make facebook pale in comparison. But Im sure the NSA has its hooks in facebook as well... I sure would if I controlled NSA.
And as another user points out... computing power doubled about every 2 years... but computing bandwidth and storage doubles even faster... so the total cost can be expected to reduce quickly over time.
The assumption is that if the NSA does not wish to express how many calls are being recorded, then it is safe to assume the number is very high. I am simply pointing out that complete coverage recording all calls is possible. You should assume that some or all of ur calls have been recorded, because it seems apparent that no one would stop the NSA from doing this and they seem to think there is no reason to report it if they did.
If u think that ur non-international long distance calls are protected under US law... then u should be aware that there is a regular practice of transferring US calls through Canada and vice versa... and once this is done, the protection no longer exists. It can be assumed that Canada for the large part records US calls and US records Canadian calls and the data is exchanged.
The only way to protect ur private voice calls from interseption is to have end to end PKI encryption. This technology is available and we should all be using it today to protect against foreign interception of our communications. But the US and Canadian government would rather leave all citizens suseptible to eavesdropping so that they can continue to easily record everything we say. It is a shame that our governments would keep on an insecure open channel just so they can monitor everything.
Currently, I record unlocked TV signals in HD over antenna. I record these to a computer. The computer then processes the shows to mark the commercials. When I play back the content, the player is instructed to use the markers to skip this portion of the content. Note that no portion of the original show is deleted or edited... I mean it has commercials, I just choose not to see them. Is this legal or illegal?
I remind you that I do not have cable or satellite and I am not paying for these programs or agreeing to the delivery and recording rules of a broadcast company
If the above is illegal... then I wonder would it be legal to manually edit the freely broadcast and recorded shows myself to remove commercials in order to archive them to watch in the future without dated advertising. Would this be legal?
If both are illegal (skipping commercials or manually removing them)... then would it be legal for me to take the recorded content and instead cut the commercial content out and store that separate from the original program? I mean can I save commercials separate from the TV program?
If all of the above is illegal in ur opinion... then is it legal for me to record only 1/2 of a program. Say if I missed the first hour of a show and then just record and store the last hour... is that legal?
Maybe this bill has nothing to say about the above senarios. But I would like to know whether I am doing something that is about to become illegal. Also... as far as I can tell, all of the above senarios are exactly the same thing.
it isnt that I dont disagree with u. But I find it more intuitive to just use two possitives instead of two negatives. Like u could say "it must be legal.. right?". But hey its just my opinion that more people will understand your intent. Also... its not about you alone. I see this all the time.
I doubt this will be a "real" computer and more like a large smartphone like the current tablets are. I mean that you will not have complete control of the device and limited hardware and software functionality. I say this because microsoft will not sell their OS for less then this total cost.
Three years ago I purchase a netbook and immediately install Linux. I didnt both installing the attached windows OS in order to get my refund on the windows tax. I like the computer and advised a friend to buy one who was considering the same. However, after my friend purchased the computer and installed windows... he asked how to change the background. After a little searching, I found that windows wanted $50 or similar in order to upgrade the included OS just to change the desktop background. I felt this was outrageous. I knew windows was a weak operating system, but I didnt reallize they were further crippling their operating system in order to sell it with a cheap computer.
I dont know what embedded 7 really is... but I suspect it is entirely less then a real operating system and I also think this will be entirely less then a real computer. I think it will be similar in experience to a cell phone without the convenience of size and function of a phone.
Yeah. And we (viewing the movie in 2d) will all have to sit through another movie while an object floats way to close to the screen and everything in the background is in perfect focus in order to support the 3d version. Instead of getting the real image of a focused close object while distant objects are nicely blurred as we would see in real life. When a movie is made for 3d it distorts and degrades the 2d experience.
I just know there will be way to many shots where we the audience know that the intent was to push the 3d experience beyond reality of what you would observe if it was real and this will have the effect of removing us from the reality of the moment
I dont think the best movies should be filmed in 3d yet. The problem with 3d now is that all 3d movie try to push the 3d-ness too far in order to show off the technology. This happens with everything new in entertainment technology. Just listen to some of the early "hi-fi stereo records" where the audio is shifted left and right over and over again. Its awful... but it sure is "stereo". Producers should just let the 3d be a passive addition to the experience, but that is not were we are yet. As a society we will all look back at this addition to the series and wonder what it could have been if the producers had not pushed it into this format just to maximize profits.
I find this unlikely. There is a clear history of all social intelligence and knowledge coming from Mesopotamia. Before that we knew nothing. Knowledge is never killed and we would never kill it on pupose. What's next? Someone will tell us the great pyramid is older then 4500 years and that math constants such as Phi and Pi are much older then our history records. Ludicrous. Humans have never been more intelligent then we are today and that process is clearly linear. Most of our knownledge stems from around the birth of our current faiths... that is the way our maker intended it and that is the way it is.
It seems rediculous to me that our governments are not drafting laws to require email services and voip telephone service to be encrypted in this way already. I cant understand why the government allows our data to be so insecurely handled and stored. It leads me to believe that they want us to remain open and suseptible to eavesdropping from all parties... only to allow them to have an easier time doing their job. The government meant to protect us is the same one trying to keep us weak. We the people should stand up and do something about this. Requiring laws to keep us weak in order to make their job easier is a serious threat to the protection of the public. Why is there no politician saying anything about this. If the public was aware of the danger they are putting the country in, then those who support laws which make encryption illegal or require back doors would be seen as the traitors they are and there actions would be considered treasonous.
Of course it is legal. The same right that allows them to record u is the same right that allows u to use your camera or cell phone to record the arrival or departure of relatives. There may be some restrictions to this in private areas of the airport or where security is concerned... but if the airport is public... and it generally is... then no one should expect the right to privacy. If u want privacy, then u should remain out of the public.
The question here is whether we can afford to do it and whether it has real value. There may be someone monitoring this data in real time, but I expect its real value will be in voice/language recognition and automated system combined with facial detection software. Even if a security risk cannot be mitigated at the time, I certainly could have use in subsequent investigations.
I for one support the use of cameras everywhere. Because the largest recorder of video and audio is the general public and I think this serves to make society better as we stay on guard against abuses occuring by authority and the public themselves.
Well would you and everyones' brother be willing to pay $5 a month to use Facebook?
The answer would be hell no. People just are so used to annoying ads they do not care. Look at slashdot as an example? You can pay a tiny monthly fee to browser slashdot ad free. It is not that Cmd Taco (I believe he quit) is evil. It is that is costs money to host this site and have the people who work on it fulltime feed. The internet is not as free as it once was with telecom giants buying all the last mile wires and someone has to pay the bills.
People do put value and prefer ads otherwise 80% of us would actually pay to browse in which we choose not too. Facebook does make money from its ads. About 1 billion in revenue every year! It sure as hell not worth $100 billion. Advertising is a very lucrative market and industries like automotive are willing to include 1/3 the price of your car just towards advertising alone!
Would those who do not use facebook, use it if they were paid $5 a month for the information they will inevitably give up? The question isnt how much people are willing to pay in order to not have their information used, but rather how much value their information is worth and how much business will pay u for it. Currently facebook is re-selling ur information and in return offering an online computer services via hardware and bandwidth for free. Its pretty obvious that they amount they pay in order to provide the service is far less then they get in return for selling ur information thru targetted advertising and other ways of selling demographic information to interested 3rd parties.
Reality is that ur information is valuable and the return of value u get from companies like facebook who collect and make profit on it is far greater then the percentage they give back to u. Most people dont seem to really understand that the greatest monitary resource facebook has is u... and that without u, facebook is worth $0.
I used to play zynga/facebook poker, until I discovered that there were bugs in the software. I thought they would fix these issues and I sent them specific emails to describe these errors in the game logic. After about a year of seeing changes in making the advertisements work better and better and no change in the game code, I realized that facebook/zynga doesnt care about a great user experience and only really cares about pleasing the advertiser and maximizing the profit of selling me to them. I stopped playing poker through facebook, but I think most facebook users must not even realize how valuable they are to facebook... or they would quit too. Because if this happened zynga/facebook would fix the actual game experience they use to entice users to be online in order to push advertising for profit.
...and it is about incorrectly putting an idea into the minds of america that: if u order from Online Candian Pharmacies, u will get the wrong perscription. Which is not true in the case of this extradition and subsequent arrest.
The FDA is enforcing trademarks for US business interests. Nothing more, nothing less. They might stop someone from taking a harmful counterfeit drug, but they will also stop many from getting the drugs they need. Whether the former is greater than the latter, I doubt if they considered for an instant.
NO. This is a story about extraditing Canadian Online Pharmacy owners from foreign coutries to face charges in the US. It is about putting the fear of god into Canadian businessmen who do this about ever leaving Canada. From the article:
Andrew Strempler was deported from Panama and flown to Miami, according to Barry Golden, with the U.S. Marshals Department in Miami.
You are incorrectly grouping spam with actual Canadian Online drug companies. These companies sell real drugs to real people and do not sell snake oil. There is no accusation that this Canadian business man sold anything other then the correct drug to the correct customers. The FDA just stated that it believes the correct drugs sold to the correct customers were manufactured outside Canada. There is absolutely no evidence that anyone ever received the wrong perscription. The end of the article talks about companies and drugs that were not what the customer ordered and fraudulent fakes. But this part of the article has nothing to do with this Canadian businessman. So if you think he sold bad drugs to americans... you are correctly being duped by the FDA and the composers of the article.
Patient receives medication Y shipping from who-knows-where which may or may not be as effective as medication X.
FDA cracks down on the online store for defrauding customers with potentially dangerous medications.
Once again... there is absolutely no charge against this Canadian that his company ever delivered anything other then the correct medication the customer ordered. The reason he was arrested in a foreign country and brought back to the US was that the FDA acussed his company of selling products "from Canada" when they were actually manufactured in a different country. It is possible that he was "duped" into buying something that it was not from these foreign manufactures... but it is logical to assume that if the FDA had any proof of this, that they would have stated it as so. Instead, the article states some inside knowledge of an accusation of fraudulent cancer drugs that were sold from the company after this man was no longer working or running this company. I mean he could not have anything to do with that.
It is my opinion that this arrest and extradition is about putting fear into those who attempt to reduce the profits of big american drug/pharmacy companies.
Getting the wrong drug or an ineffective placebo is bad, but getting no drugs at all because u cannot afford them probably does much more damage to those who need it. If fraudulent drugs from online Canadian pharmacies were causing real statistical issues to the health of americans... we would know of it.
If the FDA really wanted to look out for the health of americans, they would work with the online pharmacies to find and report these fraudelent suppliers so the Canadian companies could avoid getting duped and passing incorrect drugs on to americans. Instead they want to use this as a mechanism to put fear in americans and close down a system which obviously provides a superior service to many of their citizens.
"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is vigilant and stops a guy who helps people buy what appear to a layperson to be the health products they want to buy but are in fact frauds that will kill them or do nothing while getting them to avoid proper treatment."
I'm not sure which is right, because I don't have the facts of the case, but it's quite possible that what the FDA is doing is a good thing.
That is not at all what the artical says. In fact, it DOES say that he was trying to run a legitimate business and MAY have been duped by foreign drug companies selling the perscription drugs too his company. It DOES NOT say whether or not any drugs that were sold by this company where actually something different then what the customer/patient needed. It only says that the products reported to be Canadian were in fact made in some other country.
It is apparent that drug companies would prefer to not sell drugs at a consistent price worldwide. Instead they would rather set various prices in various locations to maximize profits depending on the disposible income of the location and the drug plans available. They would prefer to stop international trading that can provide real benefit to those who can otherwise not afford the medication they require... in order to keep profits at their maximum. They have used scare tactics to consumers by making vague statements about the "dangers of online drugs" and now they are actively deporting business owners from foreign countries to scare the owners and employees of these companies.
It is good that the FDA is trying to protect and inform Americans about drug risks and fraud. It is bad that they are in reality primarily protecting the bottom line of the giant pharmaceutical companies
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But we, "the people", are the commodity, not the product. Without us, google is nothing. Its lucky for them we havent got wind of this info yet. Some day, one company will go to far. And there will be mass defection and it will die. And all of these service suppliers who are selling us to advertisers will take note and be scared and display respect. But before that happens, we must become aware of what we are. We are the supply.
Everyone I knew who used msn/hotmail or yahoo, now uses gmail. This has been true for more then a year. The only alternative I ever see anymore is someone who uses the domain name of their ISP. I think these are just people who use the first email address handed to them.
Well. He's probably right without knowing it.
At one time it may have tricked a web agent scraping for emails, but if you just have text like "joe at blow dot com" it is likely equivelent to having "joe@blow.com". I see no reason why one would be harder to match then the other in a regex. Its security by obscurity whos time has passed. Like trying to use leet passwords... ur only making it harder for those who really need to use it.
I live in Canada and yet, my scale is set to pounds. Everyone I know still describes their weight in pounds and height in feet/inches. Just the other day I had a European in my place who wanted to weigh herself in kgs. So I turned it over to switch to metric and saw that it had 3 settings. Pounds, Kilos and Stones. "Stones"??? who uses that? Ireland? Estonia?
why couldnt a human beat it by beginning to make a symbol and finishing with another? Seems like if u know its strategy, you could beat it every time by starting with a fist, opening to partial paper and finishing with fist.
We hate any country who tries to acquire nuclear weapons.
All countries would be better off with nuclear weapons. I mean they would have more negotiating power. This is just true for the countries who have them already.
America really hates countries that have a lot of oil and do not provide a large portion of their exports to them. Iran is #3 as far as world oil reserves. Iran exports to China, Japan, India, South Korea, Italy, Turkey, Spain and a few others. They are supplying a lot of the worlds oil and the US gets none. They are cruising for an invasion and in order to have support of the people when/if this happens, our government scares us into believing they are a dangerous country because of their nuclear dreams. Fact is... all countries want the bomb. Not even to use it as a weapon, but rather as a means to negotiate better trade.
I live in Canada and we are the #1 supplier of oil to the US. If we decided not to share oil with the US, all of our current nuclear programs would suddenly become a desire to make a nuclear bomb and media would teach you quickly to fear and hate us. This would be required in order to have u support the inevitable invassion.
About sharing and self esteem as they all failed. School hasn't been about thinking or ability for decades. It's about feeling good about mediocrity.
Actually, this seems to be a rather good description of religion and how it makes one feel. Religion has been supplying happiness or contentment to the average unfullfilled person for millenia. The movement of this "benefit" into our schools is a more recent development.
I think reality is that most lives are mediocre and religion and now school provides a cooping mechanism for this. Time will tell if this is a good or bad thing for our country.
Many people of faith seem to feel that their belief provides them with a call to action. But instead from the outside I see it as a call to passiveness and indifference. The concept of a judge in the sky, implies that bad deed can be dealt with in some afterlife. To me this is a poor mindset that allows passive contentment that all will be resolved in some other reality in a fair way.
some quick examples are: rich men will have a tough time getting to heaven. The meek shall inherit the earth. Turn the other cheek. And of course the general concept of after life judgement. Im sure the real list is much longer. But each of these seems to tell the faithful: dont worry about ur crappy life and dont worry about those who are taking so much from u... for all will be dealt with after they/you die. So just put up with all the crap for now, because justice is coming... just not in ur current life.
It is my opinion that all justice occurs in this reality and that those who escape life without justice basically got away with it. I mean we ourselves create our own ying/yang. Perhaps I would feel better about it with a little faith.
There is not enough information in the article to see if I am able to pass this test. There are 9 fertilizer levels and 6 containers. Meaning, I assume there is only space to test 6 of the levels and infer the others. What information about the fertilizer for each was given? Was there a consistent variation of levels across the 9? And was there more then one type of fertilizer and how was it varied? How am I supposed to know whether or not I could pass?
Given the provided information, I will state that level 7 was the best fertilizer because this is more then 1/2 but not too much. And 7 is a faithful number, and we all know that logic is simply an extension of faith.
Its no surprise that the US and Isreal would be involved with damaging Iranian production. Its all they talk about. However, I would be pissed if I was Germany, because the virus attacked Siemens products. It really makes this company look weak on security like Microsoft.
I just want to see a 3d printer that it entirely made out of 3d printed parts and has the ability to assemble these parts and has the ability to move and find other 3d printers to melt down and make more in its own image. Then Id like to see a set of instructions that change over time making some useless, defective and sometimes random improvements over the original. That is all I want.
I dont think u r up to date on the latest voice analysis tools and speed at which it can operate. There is an article in wikipedia about "the door" in a major telecom hub/trunk that was run by the NSA and it describes the computing hardware/software that was being used. Shortly after, George Bush requested that the media outlets stop talking about this and that it was in the interest of US national security not to discuss it. And at that time, the media listened to every request in the name of national security.
Anyhow, the original post u are replying too is stating that all calls could be recorded permanently. Regardless of where voice analysis stands today, the data will always be availalbe for analysis in the future for whatever technology exists at that time.
I dont have issue with this being used for securing the country. But I expect such data will be suseptible to analysis for political reasons. For example, I think it would be quite easy to analyse voice communications in order to have an accurate estimation of exactly how each citizen is going to vote and for which party.
Let's see. Average 20 minutes/day * 300M people / 2 is about 2 M days/day. So you need to process 2 M calls at a time to keep up. Seems like it would take a moderate sized supercomputer to process 2M audio signals simultaneously looking for keywords. 100 Teraflops would be plenty,
Im not sure why u divided by 2 in the above calculation
Here is my estimate given that voice use 64kbits/s and ur estimate of each person speaking for 20 minutes on average:
300,000,000 people x 20 mins x 60 sec per min x 64kbits per sec / 8 bits per byte / 10^9 bytes per Terabyte = 2880 Terabytes of recorded data for all calls in the US
Or 2.8 Teraflops of bandwidth recording per day
Total cost in hard drive space to record this at aprox $50/terabyte = $144k per day
Annual cost in recording all US calls would be = $52.5 million
This does not include the cost of actually housing all that data and drives and computer systems in order to store, maintain and process the data. It would require a building of some size and staffing and privacy to keep such an operation secret. But it is completely possible to do this if it was a desire of the NSA.
It may be difficult to sift through all this data in real time and determine what is or is not of value for security. However, it would be an awesome historical investigation tool in which all conversations of any person could be back-tracked after a person of interest has been identified.
If I was the NSA and I had the power to do this and I didnt have anyone to answer to regarding the privacy concerns of the public... well this is exactly what I would do. Because it would be such a powerful reverse investigation tool. Furthermore, new technology such as voice recognition improvements or emotional state based on voice inflections and other unknown and future technologies could be applied back across the data set over time. A data set like this would make facebook pale in comparison. But Im sure the NSA has its hooks in facebook as well... I sure would if I controlled NSA.
And as another user points out... computing power doubled about every 2 years... but computing bandwidth and storage doubles even faster... so the total cost can be expected to reduce quickly over time.
The assumption is that if the NSA does not wish to express how many calls are being recorded, then it is safe to assume the number is very high. I am simply pointing out that complete coverage recording all calls is possible. You should assume that some or all of ur calls have been recorded, because it seems apparent that no one would stop the NSA from doing this and they seem to think there is no reason to report it if they did.
If u think that ur non-international long distance calls are protected under US law... then u should be aware that there is a regular practice of transferring US calls through Canada and vice versa... and once this is done, the protection no longer exists. It can be assumed that Canada for the large part records US calls and US records Canadian calls and the data is exchanged.
The only way to protect ur private voice calls from interseption is to have end to end PKI encryption. This technology is available and we should all be using it today to protect against foreign interception of our communications. But the US and Canadian government would rather leave all citizens suseptible to eavesdropping so that they can continue to easily record everything we say. It is a shame that our governments would keep on an insecure open channel just so they can monitor everything.
Currently, I record unlocked TV signals in HD over antenna. I record these to a computer. The computer then processes the shows to mark the commercials. When I play back the content, the player is instructed to use the markers to skip this portion of the content. Note that no portion of the original show is deleted or edited... I mean it has commercials, I just choose not to see them. Is this legal or illegal?
I remind you that I do not have cable or satellite and I am not paying for these programs or agreeing to the delivery and recording rules of a broadcast company
If the above is illegal... then I wonder would it be legal to manually edit the freely broadcast and recorded shows myself to remove commercials in order to archive them to watch in the future without dated advertising. Would this be legal?
If both are illegal (skipping commercials or manually removing them)... then would it be legal for me to take the recorded content and instead cut the commercial content out and store that separate from the original program? I mean can I save commercials separate from the TV program?
If all of the above is illegal in ur opinion... then is it legal for me to record only 1/2 of a program. Say if I missed the first hour of a show and then just record and store the last hour... is that legal?
Maybe this bill has nothing to say about the above senarios. But I would like to know whether I am doing something that is about to become illegal. Also... as far as I can tell, all of the above senarios are exactly the same thing.
it isnt that I dont disagree with u. But I find it more intuitive to just use two possitives instead of two negatives. Like u could say "it must be legal.. right?". But hey its just my opinion that more people will understand your intent. Also... its not about you alone. I see this all the time.
I doubt this will be a "real" computer and more like a large smartphone like the current tablets are. I mean that you will not have complete control of the device and limited hardware and software functionality. I say this because microsoft will not sell their OS for less then this total cost.
Three years ago I purchase a netbook and immediately install Linux. I didnt both installing the attached windows OS in order to get my refund on the windows tax. I like the computer and advised a friend to buy one who was considering the same. However, after my friend purchased the computer and installed windows... he asked how to change the background. After a little searching, I found that windows wanted $50 or similar in order to upgrade the included OS just to change the desktop background. I felt this was outrageous. I knew windows was a weak operating system, but I didnt reallize they were further crippling their operating system in order to sell it with a cheap computer.
I dont know what embedded 7 really is... but I suspect it is entirely less then a real operating system and I also think this will be entirely less then a real computer. I think it will be similar in experience to a cell phone without the convenience of size and function of a phone.
Yeah. And we (viewing the movie in 2d) will all have to sit through another movie while an object floats way to close to the screen and everything in the background is in perfect focus in order to support the 3d version. Instead of getting the real image of a focused close object while distant objects are nicely blurred as we would see in real life. When a movie is made for 3d it distorts and degrades the 2d experience.
I just know there will be way to many shots where we the audience know that the intent was to push the 3d experience beyond reality of what you would observe if it was real and this will have the effect of removing us from the reality of the moment
I dont think the best movies should be filmed in 3d yet. The problem with 3d now is that all 3d movie try to push the 3d-ness too far in order to show off the technology. This happens with everything new in entertainment technology. Just listen to some of the early "hi-fi stereo records" where the audio is shifted left and right over and over again. Its awful... but it sure is "stereo". Producers should just let the 3d be a passive addition to the experience, but that is not were we are yet. As a society we will all look back at this addition to the series and wonder what it could have been if the producers had not pushed it into this format just to maximize profits.
I find this unlikely. There is a clear history of all social intelligence and knowledge coming from Mesopotamia. Before that we knew nothing. Knowledge is never killed and we would never kill it on pupose. What's next? Someone will tell us the great pyramid is older then 4500 years and that math constants such as Phi and Pi are much older then our history records. Ludicrous. Humans have never been more intelligent then we are today and that process is clearly linear. Most of our knownledge stems from around the birth of our current faiths... that is the way our maker intended it and that is the way it is.
It seems rediculous to me that our governments are not drafting laws to require email services and voip telephone service to be encrypted in this way already. I cant understand why the government allows our data to be so insecurely handled and stored. It leads me to believe that they want us to remain open and suseptible to eavesdropping from all parties... only to allow them to have an easier time doing their job. The government meant to protect us is the same one trying to keep us weak. We the people should stand up and do something about this. Requiring laws to keep us weak in order to make their job easier is a serious threat to the protection of the public. Why is there no politician saying anything about this. If the public was aware of the danger they are putting the country in, then those who support laws which make encryption illegal or require back doors would be seen as the traitors they are and there actions would be considered treasonous.
And that is actually legal?
Of course it is legal. The same right that allows them to record u is the same right that allows u to use your camera or cell phone to record the arrival or departure of relatives. There may be some restrictions to this in private areas of the airport or where security is concerned... but if the airport is public... and it generally is... then no one should expect the right to privacy. If u want privacy, then u should remain out of the public.
The question here is whether we can afford to do it and whether it has real value. There may be someone monitoring this data in real time, but I expect its real value will be in voice/language recognition and automated system combined with facial detection software. Even if a security risk cannot be mitigated at the time, I certainly could have use in subsequent investigations.
I for one support the use of cameras everywhere. Because the largest recorder of video and audio is the general public and I think this serves to make society better as we stay on guard against abuses occuring by authority and the public themselves.
Well would you and everyones' brother be willing to pay $5 a month to use Facebook?
The answer would be hell no. People just are so used to annoying ads they do not care. Look at slashdot as an example? You can pay a tiny monthly fee to browser slashdot ad free. It is not that Cmd Taco (I believe he quit) is evil. It is that is costs money to host this site and have the people who work on it fulltime feed. The internet is not as free as it once was with telecom giants buying all the last mile wires and someone has to pay the bills.
People do put value and prefer ads otherwise 80% of us would actually pay to browse in which we choose not too. Facebook does make money from its ads. About 1 billion in revenue every year! It sure as hell not worth $100 billion. Advertising is a very lucrative market and industries like automotive are willing to include 1/3 the price of your car just towards advertising alone!
Would those who do not use facebook, use it if they were paid $5 a month for the information they will inevitably give up? The question isnt how much people are willing to pay in order to not have their information used, but rather how much value their information is worth and how much business will pay u for it. Currently facebook is re-selling ur information and in return offering an online computer services via hardware and bandwidth for free. Its pretty obvious that they amount they pay in order to provide the service is far less then they get in return for selling ur information thru targetted advertising and other ways of selling demographic information to interested 3rd parties.
Reality is that ur information is valuable and the return of value u get from companies like facebook who collect and make profit on it is far greater then the percentage they give back to u. Most people dont seem to really understand that the greatest monitary resource facebook has is u... and that without u, facebook is worth $0.
I used to play zynga/facebook poker, until I discovered that there were bugs in the software. I thought they would fix these issues and I sent them specific emails to describe these errors in the game logic. After about a year of seeing changes in making the advertisements work better and better and no change in the game code, I realized that facebook/zynga doesnt care about a great user experience and only really cares about pleasing the advertiser and maximizing the profit of selling me to them. I stopped playing poker through facebook, but I think most facebook users must not even realize how valuable they are to facebook... or they would quit too. Because if this happened zynga/facebook would fix the actual game experience they use to entice users to be online in order to push advertising for profit.
...and it is about incorrectly putting an idea into the minds of america that: if u order from Online Candian Pharmacies, u will get the wrong perscription. Which is not true in the case of this extradition and subsequent arrest.
The FDA is enforcing trademarks for US business interests. Nothing more, nothing less. They might stop someone from taking a harmful counterfeit drug, but they will also stop many from getting the drugs they need. Whether the former is greater than the latter, I doubt if they considered for an instant.
NO. This is a story about extraditing Canadian Online Pharmacy owners from foreign coutries to face charges in the US. It is about putting the fear of god into Canadian businessmen who do this about ever leaving Canada. From the article:
Andrew Strempler was deported from Panama and flown to Miami, according to Barry Golden, with the U.S. Marshals Department in Miami.
You are incorrectly grouping spam with actual Canadian Online drug companies. These companies sell real drugs to real people and do not sell snake oil. There is no accusation that this Canadian business man sold anything other then the correct drug to the correct customers. The FDA just stated that it believes the correct drugs sold to the correct customers were manufactured outside Canada. There is absolutely no evidence that anyone ever received the wrong perscription. The end of the article talks about companies and drugs that were not what the customer ordered and fraudulent fakes. But this part of the article has nothing to do with this Canadian businessman. So if you think he sold bad drugs to americans... you are correctly being duped by the FDA and the composers of the article.
Patient receives medication Y shipping from who-knows-where which may or may not be as effective as medication X. FDA cracks down on the online store for defrauding customers with potentially dangerous medications.
Once again... there is absolutely no charge against this Canadian that his company ever delivered anything other then the correct medication the customer ordered. The reason he was arrested in a foreign country and brought back to the US was that the FDA acussed his company of selling products "from Canada" when they were actually manufactured in a different country. It is possible that he was "duped" into buying something that it was not from these foreign manufactures... but it is logical to assume that if the FDA had any proof of this, that they would have stated it as so. Instead, the article states some inside knowledge of an accusation of fraudulent cancer drugs that were sold from the company after this man was no longer working or running this company. I mean he could not have anything to do with that.
It is my opinion that this arrest and extradition is about putting fear into those who attempt to reduce the profits of big american drug/pharmacy companies.
Getting the wrong drug or an ineffective placebo is bad, but getting no drugs at all because u cannot afford them probably does much more damage to those who need it. If fraudulent drugs from online Canadian pharmacies were causing real statistical issues to the health of americans... we would know of it.
If the FDA really wanted to look out for the health of americans, they would work with the online pharmacies to find and report these fraudelent suppliers so the Canadian companies could avoid getting duped and passing incorrect drugs on to americans. Instead they want to use this as a mechanism to put fear in americans and close down a system which obviously provides a superior service to many of their citizens.
"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is vigilant and stops a guy who helps people buy what appear to a layperson to be the health products they want to buy but are in fact frauds that will kill them or do nothing while getting them to avoid proper treatment."
I'm not sure which is right, because I don't have the facts of the case, but it's quite possible that what the FDA is doing is a good thing.
That is not at all what the artical says. In fact, it DOES say that he was trying to run a legitimate business and MAY have been duped by foreign drug companies selling the perscription drugs too his company. It DOES NOT say whether or not any drugs that were sold by this company where actually something different then what the customer/patient needed. It only says that the products reported to be Canadian were in fact made in some other country.
It is apparent that drug companies would prefer to not sell drugs at a consistent price worldwide. Instead they would rather set various prices in various locations to maximize profits depending on the disposible income of the location and the drug plans available. They would prefer to stop international trading that can provide real benefit to those who can otherwise not afford the medication they require... in order to keep profits at their maximum. They have used scare tactics to consumers by making vague statements about the "dangers of online drugs" and now they are actively deporting business owners from foreign countries to scare the owners and employees of these companies.
It is good that the FDA is trying to protect and inform Americans about drug risks and fraud. It is bad that they are in reality primarily protecting the bottom line of the giant pharmaceutical companies