It's the "progress" from one-at-a time | paper records | aggregate information to indexed databases (secured by government guidelines, no less) that changes the game. Do you really want anyone (including lawyers, as another poster brilliantly pointed out) to be able to "prove" you were entering the freeway at a certain location (or, for that matter, speeding) three years ago?
Of course the powers-to-be have better things to do than fish through all this data. But a new potential will exist that, uh, just might be (mis)used in ways the designers never intended. "It's not the odds, it's the stakes."
Glickstein says that by the end of the year, the company should have its document-protection system ready. A year after that, the system for printing bar codes should be commercially available.
Bullseye. Thank you. The rigid script some of these poor tech support people have to follow (in lieu of cultivating problem resolution skills) forces one to lie when asked completely irrelevant questions ("A BSoD? Uh, when was the last time you calibrated your printer?").
It can only be hoped that this lie-detection technology is more reliably accurate than polygraphs...
Much like... swarming the borders of an adjoining nation to get across by any means necessary, when the idea of amnesty is highly publicized - instead of plodding through the absymally convoluted legal immigration process...
Both are examples of rewarding the type of behavior that most strains the mechanism.
But I put the guy immediately on hold and called everyone on my team over to look at my screen and see what this guy was disputing. Everyone had a good laugh.
So I guess some people are shameless and admit to it, anyway.
In the ECommerce Times coverage by Elizabeth Millard, Yankee Group Dana Gardner was quoted as saying...
With continued insults being hurled in formal statements and Web site postings, SCO will move forward with its trial preparations as the target of much ire from the Linux community and others, Gardner noted.
"There's a lot of negative sentiment toward the company," he said. "You see it in everything from published remarks to the recent denial-of-service attack. But they're continuing to be resolute. ...
Almost, but not quite, connecting "the Linux community" with the DoS.
Uh... I didn't exactly say that "family comes first", but I did reintroduce that word - to illustrate that the OP was talking about more that mere hobbies. (Not that I disagree that family comes first, but my reply was spurred by... someone responding to something in the original post that wasn't there.)
The OP used geocaching as an example of a larger set (our "real lives"), so I don't think we have a disagreement. I didn't want to see the OP's comparison carelessly rephrased as work-vs.-hobbies, that's all. Work-vs.-nonwork is a very different topic.
...where is the harm in putting it before other hobbies? kicks off several replies in my head, but they're all probably getting beaten to death in other threads anyway.
Even broke down and bought a used IIIXE... which died a month later. I know there is much newer tech out there now, and geeky individual buyers are not the preferred target market. I could probably get this doorstop fixed - but my cell phone and Blackberry are covering the basic PIM and game bases.
And I've never had to reboot the piece of paper in my wallet with all the phone numbers on it. Even a phone with an OS of any complexity makes me nervous. Again, I know they don't care about incidental sales...
This is a toy I would like to be able to con myself into "needing" -but at $300-$400 and formidable network access charges, it isn't that inconvenient to check e-mail with the cell phone or haul the laptop around.
While there many not be many people with the same mindset, I wonder if a $100 price point (for a device with some expansion capabilities) wouldn't get people like me off the fence.
"The Government must play a greater role in punishing those who conceal their identities online, particularly when they do so in furtherance of a serious federal criminal offense or in violation of a federally protected intellectual property right," Smith said...
So - that sentence can end at the first comma, and be no less accurate in representing his opinion.
Smith and Berman drafted the bill after receiving complaints from the entertainment and software industries...
'Of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations'
The bill would not affect people who are trying to safeguard their privacy because it only makes it a crime to submit false registration data when it is done to help commit a crime...
Now if we could only keep that pesky concept of what constitutes a "crime" from continually expanding...
Orthogonal, thank you. I wish I could e-mail you and get permission to repost this. You summarized several things that have me seriously concerned, and there was something galvanizing in your collection of statements.
Now I have more research ahead of me, as a result of your post... but my resolve to inform others and express my opposition to this "inevitable" erosion of personal freedom in the USA just got an enormous kick in the butt.
Here's what immediately follows that last quote...
So, it seems likely that the perpetrators of the MyDoom virus and its variants are internet vandals with a specific grudge. SCO is the big, bad company that violates one of their sacred principles, as they would see it.
There's no proof, of course, but it must be one of the theories at the top of any investigator's list.
And this is from a organization which allegedly deals in "news" ?
Slashdot Mirror
Uh, you're aware that OO can save files in M$Word format... right?
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Come to think of it, it is impossible to make a "high quality" anything if the TV show concerned is "Dharma and Greg".
Dude, there are so many worse examples that could be used...! At least 'D&G' has the occasional LOL. And Jenna Elfman...
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Fear is the mind-killer...
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Hear hear...
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True enough...
It's the "progress" from one-at-a time | paper records | aggregate information to indexed databases (secured by government guidelines, no less) that changes the game. Do you really want anyone (including lawyers, as another poster brilliantly pointed out) to be able to "prove" you were entering the freeway at a certain location (or, for that matter, speeding) three years ago?
Of course the powers-to-be have better things to do than fish through all this data. But a new potential will exist that, uh, just might be (mis)used in ways the designers never intended. "It's not the odds, it's the stakes."
And sentient roads are coming, too. Yikes.
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e911, RFID, and now this...
The future looks bright for companies who'll be selling jammers.
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The devices on them would collect traffic-related data including vehicle
speed, location and which direction the vehicle is heading.
So long as they remain voluntary, and can be turned off...
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It'll be interesting to see if this has any affect on the wait listing service monopoly...
"ICANN's board of directors is scheduled to consider approving the WLS during its March
6 meeting" in Rome.
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Strongly agreed. It would seem the redefinition of words ("minority", "perverse") is controlled by the victors.
.xxx TLD created in, say, 1995...
If only there had been an
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If postage hasn't stopped snail spam, why would it stop e-mail spam?
The sender's cost of e-mail spam is negligible, per address, compared to snail mail postage (in the USA, anyway).
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Glickstein says that by the end of the year, the company should have its document-protection system ready. A year after that, the system for printing bar codes should be commercially available.
Tinfoil hat: on
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Oh, and then think about getting a dish.
But please read up on the company first...
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Bullseye. Thank you. The rigid script some of these poor tech support people have to follow (in lieu of cultivating problem resolution skills) forces one to lie when asked completely irrelevant questions ("A BSoD? Uh, when was the last time you calibrated your printer?").
It can only be hoped that this lie-detection technology is more reliably accurate than polygraphs...
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This is strangely... appealing. Imagine the interview process.
.?
Where would I send an app . .
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Much like... swarming the borders of an adjoining nation to get across by any means necessary, when the idea of amnesty is highly publicized - instead of plodding through the absymally convoluted legal immigration process...
Both are examples of rewarding the type of behavior that most strains the mechanism.
<grrr>
But I put the guy immediately on hold and called everyone on my team over to look at my screen and see what this guy was disputing. Everyone had a good laugh.
So I guess some people are shameless and admit to it, anyway.
Pot, kettle, black.
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Sure, it's funny when it's somebody else's cat.
Wow. Nanotech script kiddies. I never thought of that... and I'm glad you posted it. Good one.
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In the ECommerce Times coverage by Elizabeth Millard, Yankee Group Dana Gardner was quoted as saying...
...
With continued insults being hurled in formal statements and Web site postings, SCO will move forward with its trial preparations as the target of much ire from the Linux community and others, Gardner noted.
"There's a lot of negative sentiment toward the company," he said. "You see it in everything from published remarks to the recent denial-of-service attack. But they're continuing to be resolute.
Almost, but not quite, connecting "the Linux community" with the DoS.
Very slippery.
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Uh... I didn't exactly say that "family comes first", but I did reintroduce that word - to illustrate that the OP was talking about more that mere hobbies. (Not that I disagree that family comes first, but my reply was spurred by... someone responding to something in the original post that wasn't there.)
...where is the harm in putting it before other hobbies? kicks off several replies in my head, but they're all probably getting beaten to death in other threads anyway.
The OP used geocaching as an example of a larger set (our "real lives"), so I don't think we have a disagreement. I didn't want to see the OP's comparison carelessly rephrased as work-vs.-hobbies, that's all. Work-vs.-nonwork is a very different topic.
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If you get payed to do what you truely enjoy, where is the harm in putting it before other hobbies?
Er, 'rtfp', that's not what the OP said...
> We are a sad society when we put work in front of our "real lives".
Another word he used, in contrast to "hobbies", was "family".
(And this gets modded as "Insightful"? Sheesh.)
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I want to root for Palm. Really.
Even broke down and bought a used IIIXE... which died a month later. I know there is much newer tech out there now, and geeky individual buyers are not the preferred target market. I could probably get this doorstop fixed - but my cell phone and Blackberry are covering the basic PIM and game bases.
And I've never had to reboot the piece of paper in my wallet with all the phone numbers on it. Even a phone with an OS of any complexity makes me nervous. Again, I know they don't care about incidental sales...
This is a toy I would like to be able to con myself into "needing" -but at $300-$400 and formidable network access charges, it isn't that inconvenient to check e-mail with the cell phone or haul the laptop around.
While there many not be many people with the same mindset, I wonder if a $100 price point (for a device with some expansion capabilities) wouldn't get people like me off the fence.
<grrr>
"The Government must play a greater role in punishing those who conceal their identities online, particularly when they do so in furtherance of a serious federal criminal offense or in violation of a federally protected intellectual property right," Smith said...
So - that sentence can end at the first comma, and be no less accurate in representing his opinion.
Smith and Berman drafted the bill after receiving complaints from the entertainment and software industries...
'Of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations'
The bill would not affect people who are trying to safeguard their privacy because it
only makes it a crime to submit false registration data when it is done to help commit a
crime...
Now if we could only keep that pesky concept of what constitutes a "crime" from continually
expanding...
<grrr>
Orthogonal, thank you. I wish I could e-mail you and get permission to repost this. You summarized several things that have me seriously concerned, and there was something galvanizing in your collection of statements.
Now I have more research ahead of me, as a result of your post... but my resolve to inform others and express my opposition to this "inevitable" erosion of personal freedom in the USA just got an enormous kick in the butt.
<grrr>
Here's what immediately follows that last quote...
So, it seems likely that the perpetrators of the MyDoom virus and its variants are internet vandals with a specific grudge. SCO is the big, bad company that violates one of their sacred principles, as they would see it.
There's no proof, of course, but it must be one of the theories at the top of any investigator's list.
And this is from a organization which allegedly deals in "news" ?
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That was an efishient remark.
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