I thought the whole idea behind the 'right to be forgotten' was that google would 'forget' who you were. If they only forget you in the EU(search results come up as 0), but still have all the data on you (serach indexes, etc) then you haven't been forgotten have you?
I think that's what France is trying to point out here.
If not a key, then a physical emergency OFF switch, that will kill power to everything. Then again, if you drive that new Kia with the "electronic parking/emergency" break, that's not going to help you.
When a company uses HTTPS proxies, it's just making it so all of the client browsers trust every HTTPS website.
Yes, HTTPS proxies save money, but so does not using any security.
I hate to say this but most, if not all, HTTPS proxies will do certificate/domain checking to verify that the cert is in fact valid. At my previous job I maintained a WebSence proxy/web filter for the company. I would get complains all the time when a site would become unaccessable because the site did not renew their certificate before it expired, and WebSense would block it.
My parents did the same thing. Their electric utility called an offered it to them (I don't remember if they needed to pay anything extra) and they came an installed it on the electric meter.
Just keep in mind that you still need to protect phone/cable lines as well, but i think it's a good idea, if your utility offers it.
Repeat after me: "The patriot act allows searches without a warrant within 100 miles of any US border."
In your link, it states that
The Department of Homeland Security has the authority to stop, search and detain anyone, for any reason within a “Constitution Free Zone,” resident or traveler.
The FBI, local/state PD are not part of DHS, so they would need a warrant, consent, or probable cause (this includes terrorism) in order to conduct a search, even with-in 100 miles of the border.
I think that is the craziest part! I love how we (the tax payers) are going to have to pay for the wiretaps, personal to comb though the wiretapped info, and cost of court cases that are brought. All so that the corporations can continue to make money by having us buy their products, and not have to pay to gather the evedince against those they deem pirates.
Umm... isn't that what they make firewalls for? To block any unwanted incoming/outgoing traffic? (unless of course the firewall it's self has a backdoor, in which point it would be pointless to use it in the first place)
This is the exact reason why we need to defranchise the cable-co and telco's. If they do not have any one to compete against (other then cable vs. telco) they have no reason to make them selves competitive by expanding or upgrading their networks. If Comcast had to compete against Cox, Charter, TWC, etc. and Verizon's FiOS was competing with AT&T's U-Verus, I bet broadband speeds in the US would be much better. Then if you really didn't like they way your ISP was operating, you would have more then just one other choice. But I doubt that will ever happen since private corporations have Congress in their pocket.
I really don't see the 1st amendment issue here. The NSL law is troubling for other reasons (prohibition on seeking legal advice) but not because you can't disclose the letter while the investigation is still ongoing.
Last I checked you always have the right to an attorney (which he did contact) no matter what, but this is only part of the problem with NSL's. It's more the infringement of the 4th amendment that concerns me. This is just as bad as the warrantless wire tapping that was going on (and most likely still it). It's an abuse of power if you don't have one branch of government checking on the other. Now if the NSL came with a warrent, signed by a judge to obtain the information/items that where being asked for in the NSL (with just the NSL having the gag order to "protect the ongoing investigation") that would be IMHO would not be an abuse of power.
Sacamer: Hi this is M$, we have detected a virus on your PC.
Callie: Really? What version of winblows am I using right now?
Scamer: Windows XP.
Callie: Try again there buddy, I use Linux. (click)
Valid point, but then also raises another question. How many times have you heard about people getting pressured to sign/not sign a petition vs. pressured to vote a certain way?
Also, how many petitions are passed around for people to sign each year vs. number of times you can vote in a year? Being that the number of petitions far outweigh the number of times you vote, they have that much less significance then a vote does, and thus a far less bullies trying to corrorse/pressure you for petitions then voting.
And if I do get my legs broken for signing/not signing a petition, my next stop after I get out of the hospital would be the PD to file charges for assault.
I support gay marriage, and the whole Prop 8 thing has to be frustrating, but if painting swastikas on a Jew's home, or beating an openly gay man just be cause he's gay, etc. are "Hate Crimes". Then de-facing a church or other religious intuition, a person's home, or a person because they are anti-gay should also be labeled as a "Hate Crime", other wise it's a double standard.
Expressing your opinion is one thing (name calling shouting, debating, etc.). but ANYONE who violently oppress' someone else for their beliefs should be prosecuted as a "Hate Crime" regardless of who is doing the oppressing.
No, because if who you vote for is known, the voting public can be corrorsed into voting for or against someone or something, and if you don't there could be any number of possible threats held against you (even if you don't vote at all). The outcome of a vote has more of a direct effect on who gets voted into gov. or if public option laws/ordinances are passed.
Petitions are more we the undersigned would like to see this happen/not happen to put pressure on current elected gov. to sway them your way, and thus doesn't have as much of an impact.
BTW, your signature is checked on an absentee ballot and the registration form, just as it is checked when you go to the polls, by comparing it to known copy of your signature.
No, Voting should remain as it is, you have to prove your ID and sign-in to vote, so that no one person can vote twice (their vote and yours). But who you vote for should not be a matter of public record. Petitions while related to voting do not carry the same weight as a vote, and names need to be verified to show that X number of people did in fact sign the petition.
That would require people to actually go out to the polls to vote, instead of just complaining bout the status quo...
That is also assuming that the new person elected doesn't take the "bribes" from the lobbyists (GLWT).
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I thought the whole idea behind the 'right to be forgotten' was that google would 'forget' who you were. If they only forget you in the EU(search results come up as 0), but still have all the data on you (serach indexes, etc) then you haven't been forgotten have you?
I think that's what France is trying to point out here.
If not a key, then a physical emergency OFF switch, that will kill power to everything.
Then again, if you drive that new Kia with the "electronic parking/emergency" break, that's not going to help you.
When a company uses HTTPS proxies, it's just making it so all of the client browsers trust every HTTPS website.
Yes, HTTPS proxies save money, but so does not using any security.
I hate to say this but most, if not all, HTTPS proxies will do certificate/domain checking to verify that the cert is in fact valid. At my previous job I maintained a WebSence proxy/web filter for the company. I would get complains all the time when a site would become unaccessable because the site did not renew their certificate before it expired, and WebSense would block it.
Just keep in mind that you still need to protect phone/cable lines as well, but i think it's a good idea, if your utility offers it.
Repeat after me: "The patriot act allows searches without a warrant within 100 miles of any US border."
In your link, it states that
The Department of Homeland Security has the authority to stop, search and detain anyone, for any reason within a “Constitution Free Zone,” resident or traveler.
The FBI, local/state PD are not part of DHS, so they would need a warrant, consent, or probable cause (this includes terrorism) in order to conduct a search, even with-in 100 miles of the border.
Is it just me, or does any body else think of Prey by Micheal Crichton when they hear bout 'swarm bots'?
I think that is the craziest part! I love how we (the tax payers) are going to have to pay for the wiretaps, personal to comb though the wiretapped info, and cost of court cases that are brought. All so that the corporations can continue to make money by having us buy their products, and not have to pay to gather the evedince against those they deem pirates.
Ding, Ding, Ding.... we have a winner, give this man a prize!
That a firewall would stop the "NSA backdoors" from being opened on a networked device.
Umm... isn't that what they make firewalls for? To block any unwanted incoming/outgoing traffic? (unless of course the firewall it's self has a backdoor, in which point it would be pointless to use it in the first place)
They do?? Every ISP I ever had the dis-pleasure of paying always gave me a public IP, that i could ping, ssh, etc. to.
This is the exact reason why we need to defranchise the cable-co and telco's. If they do not have any one to compete against (other then cable vs. telco) they have no reason to make them selves competitive by expanding or upgrading their networks. If Comcast had to compete against Cox, Charter, TWC, etc. and Verizon's FiOS was competing with AT&T's U-Verus, I bet broadband speeds in the US would be much better. Then if you really didn't like they way your ISP was operating, you would have more then just one other choice. But I doubt that will ever happen since private corporations have Congress in their pocket.
Do have to say the though, the one of Boba Fett is definitely my favorite
This brings a whole new meaning to "ShitBreak"!
I really don't see the 1st amendment issue here. The NSL law is troubling for other reasons (prohibition on seeking legal advice) but not because you can't disclose the letter while the investigation is still ongoing.
Last I checked you always have the right to an attorney (which he did contact) no matter what, but this is only part of the problem with NSL's. It's more the infringement of the 4th amendment that concerns me. This is just as bad as the warrantless wire tapping that was going on (and most likely still it). It's an abuse of power if you don't have one branch of government checking on the other. Now if the NSL came with a warrent, signed by a judge to obtain the information/items that where being asked for in the NSL (with just the NSL having the gag order to "protect the ongoing investigation") that would be IMHO would not be an abuse of power.
Just goes to show the lengths people will go to try to get out of a ticket... sad really.
That's going to be one hell of an electric bill with the refrigerator door being open for so long.
Sacamer: Hi this is M$, we have detected a virus on your PC.
Callie: Really? What version of winblows am I using right now?
Scamer: Windows XP.
Callie: Try again there buddy, I use Linux. (click)
Also, how many petitions are passed around for people to sign each year vs. number of times you can vote in a year? Being that the number of petitions far outweigh the number of times you vote, they have that much less significance then a vote does, and thus a far less bullies trying to corrorse/pressure you for petitions then voting.
And if I do get my legs broken for signing/not signing a petition, my next stop after I get out of the hospital would be the PD to file charges for assault.
I support gay marriage, and the whole Prop 8 thing has to be frustrating, but if painting swastikas on a Jew's home, or beating an openly gay man just be cause he's gay, etc. are "Hate Crimes". Then de-facing a church or other religious intuition, a person's home, or a person because they are anti-gay should also be labeled as a "Hate Crime", other wise it's a double standard.
Expressing your opinion is one thing (name calling shouting, debating, etc.). but ANYONE who violently oppress' someone else for their beliefs should be prosecuted as a "Hate Crime" regardless of who is doing the oppressing.
Petitions are more we the undersigned would like to see this happen/not happen to put pressure on current elected gov. to sway them your way, and thus doesn't have as much of an impact.
BTW, your signature is checked on an absentee ballot and the registration form, just as it is checked when you go to the polls, by comparing it to known copy of your signature.
No, Voting should remain as it is, you have to prove your ID and sign-in to vote, so that no one person can vote twice (their vote and yours). But who you vote for should not be a matter of public record. Petitions while related to voting do not carry the same weight as a vote, and names need to be verified to show that X number of people did in fact sign the petition.
That would require people to actually go out to the polls to vote, instead of just complaining bout the status quo... That is also assuming that the new person elected doesn't take the "bribes" from the lobbyists (GLWT).
damn, beat me too it!