It wouldnt matter if you develop outside of the country, they government could simply require that all IP software being sold within the US have the backdoors and voila, your money saving privacy scheme is gone because now you cant sell to the US market.
The only way to work this out is to actually stand up to the government and say "STOP!"
and just who do you say we vote in? the next guy that will do the same thing, but said he wouldn't during the election? Get real. The problem lies in the system of electing people who WANT to be in those positions rather than people who are actually qualified to be in them. I do not give 2 shits if a politician has experience in foreign policy if that self same politician is making, executing or ruling on IP Law. I want people that actually understand what IP law is and the technologies involved doing that.
Here were refer to it as "Ex Post Facto" law. You cannot prosecute someone for committing a crime before the act was made a crime. Which, completely gets ignored here in the US if they back date the law within the law itself. Meaning, they can write into the bill "Any act committed on or before x date" where x date can be several years prior to the passing of the law.
Probable Cause is listed as: "A reasonable belief that a person has committed a crime. The test the court of appeals employs to determine whether probable cause existed for purposes of arrest is whether facts and circumstances within the officer's knowledge are sufficient to warrant a prudent person to believe a suspect has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime. U.S. v. Puerta, 982 F.2d 1297, 1300 (9th Cir. 1992). In terms of seizure of items, probable cause merely requires that the facts available to the officer warrants a "man of reasonable caution" to conclude that certain items may be contraband or stolen property or useful as evidence of a crime. U.S. v. Dunn, 946 F.2d 615, 619 (9th Cir. 1991), cert. Denied, 112 S. Ct. 401 (1992)." src: cite
What this means is that, any issuing authority can go before a judge and explain a "reasonble suspicion" of a criminal act, under oath, and have a warrant for arrest or seizure issued by that magistrate.
You do have recourse if the government issues a warrant and your property is seized using a invalid warrant. Anything from "suppression of evidence" if you are being charged with a crime, to civil suits based on damage accrued.
Any of the 84,000 sites that were accidentally cut off, including FreeDNS' have the legal right to sue in civil court for any lost revenue and/or other damages pursuant to the civil code of the state the business is registered in.
"Explanation: This proposal meets a number of compelling goals. First it will diminish the
potential for blocking of top level domain strings considered objectionable by governments,
which harms the architecture of the DNS and undermines the goal of universal resolvability.
Second, affording governments the opportunity, through the GAC, to advise the ICANN
Board that there is consensus GAC advice regarding particular proposed strings that should
not be processed is supportive of ICANN’s commitment to ensure that its decision are in the
global public interest."
The proposal isn't designed to limit the new TLDs, it isn't designed to give control to 1 government. Currently, propsed TLD's are reviewed by 3, that's THREE people "“three experts recognized as eminent jurists of international reputation". That's more scary to me than allowing 100 nations to vote, object, advise on new TLD issues.
Read the damn PDF The only real objectionable protion is section 4 on intellectual rights.
Apparently you do not actually know as much about "The War between the States" as you would like to think you do.
1) Several northern states not only allowed slavery, but endorsed it to lower manufacturing costs.
2) Slavery did not enter into the war as a political objective until Lincoln realized that France, England and Germany were assisting the southern states to the extent of nearly entering the war themselves. England, France and Germany were providing arms and munitions to the southern armies, along with advisors, and France was running the northern blockades to import supplies to them.
3) The "State's Right's" issue was based on the fact that the southern states were selling tobacco, cotton and other trade goods to England and France, who were then reselling the goods back to the northern manufacturers at a marked up price. The northern manufacturers cried to the federal government to intercede and force the southern states to sell first to the north, which was less profitable. Thus they refused and threatened to withdraw from the union if the federal government tried to force them.
4) The Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, 2 years into the war, NOT at the onset as most think. The reasoning behind the Proclamation was not to persuade more Americans to side with the north, but to force Europe out of the war since slavery was anathema in western Europe. And it worked.
It's thoroughly amazing how much people still do not know the correct versions of history. I have a very good friend from New York that moved here to Atlanta a few years ago. Until recently, he was under the impression that the south had started the war by invading the north and attempting to overthrow the government. This theory was backed up by one of his history books that he had from school. He was very surprised to learn that Robert E. Lee Sat on the border of D.C with the Army of Northern Virginia declining to invade D.C. in hopes that he could negotiate with the federal government to cease their aggression towards the Confederacy. He was also amazed to find out that, "That damn racist" as he termed Lee, was actually Lincoln's first choice to lead the armies of the north. Again he was amazed to find out that one of the reasons that the south was still behind the times in regards to infrastructure was due to huge swaths of the south being razed to the ground on Sherman's march to the sea.
Yes. There is a rare occasion when I dont get that high, but it's usually when there is something going on near where I live, festivals etc. I assume it's because of the bombardment of radio waves.
my 100+ gigs of transfer per month due to site hosting, data transfers, downloads, uploads, movie watching, torrenting and a myriad of other uses which was VERY quickly throttled by comcast, has yet not been throttled at all by clear in the 15 or so months that I have been using them. I also host nearly a dozen 24 hour broadcast internet radio stations. Clear hasn't said/mailed or otherwise notified me of any additional charges or throttled my bandwidth... at all. Comcast on the other hand throttled me to 64kbs, disabled connections that exceeeded 30MBs of download and billed me for over $1000 in additional fees for bandwidth usage. To top that off, Comcast had, and still has, acccording to my employees, clients and friends, very frequent outages with no notification even when they are planned. Clear however, decided to upgrade 1 of the 5 towers near me and sent me 3 emails telling me that I may have a service interruption due to the upgrades and if so, reboot my modem to have it reconnect to a new tower.
No problems here in Atlanta for me. 13Mbs down, 4Mbps up, 56ms ping. Been using them since they came here and i've only ever had 1 issue which was solved by a reset.
I cant see what you all are complaining about. I am using chrome on vista and I am not having any of these issues at all. The sidebar is not hiding content, the pages load just fine (i do have no ads checked as an option) and I'm actually liking the clean,simplistic design here. Makes it much easier for me to read w/o my glasses.
I like how the European Union is handling bringing in employees from outside the EU. I recently applied for a position with a company in the EU and was denied due to the fact that they would have had to submit a nearly 800 page brief explaining why they were hiring an American instead of an EU citizen. In addition to some countries slapping some serious taxes on companies that are outsourcing labor. Tax it till they cant afford to hire outside labor anymore and it will either end, or they will leave that country which will make room for someone to take their place.
"You save only 59 seconds over 8 miles by going 75 instead of 65. Do you really have to pass that guy? Do the Math!"
Yes because on the 800 mile trips I make monthly, it saves me an hour and 40 mins each way.
"Amicus Curiae: Literally, friend of the court. A person with strong interest in or views on the subject matter of an action, but not a party to the action, may petition the court for permission to file a brief, ostensibly on behalf of a party but actually to suggest a rationale consistent with its own views. Such amicus curiae briefs are commonly filed in appeals concerning matters of a broad public interest; e.g., civil rights cases. They may be filed by private persons or the government. In appeals to the U.S. courts of appeals, an amicus brief may be filed only if accompanied by written consent of all parties, or by leave of court granted on motion or at the request of the court, except that consent or leave shall not be required when the brief is presented by the United States or an officer or agency thereof." -- legal-dictionary.freedictionary.com
This means that in cases such as the legality of the suits filed by the *IAA's, he will have the ability to file amicus curiae briefs on behalf of the administration and/or the *IAA's. It doesn't have to mean that the government was directly implicated in anything, but it is a preparatory action for the future class action suits that will be filed against them.
Yes China can, it is a communist country, they can quite literally do whatever they want within the borders of their country including denying bank transfers between citizens and/or businesses both nationally and internationally.
I use a Netspend Prepaid card for all online transactions. If I have a heavy month of online spending, I will pay their $8.99 monthly fee for that month, otherwise I just pay $1 per transaction. In my area, there are literally a dozen locations, 2 within a 2 minute walk that will INSTANTLY load whatever $ amount I choose onto the card, or I can use my bank account and have it in 24 hours. I load only what I need to on the card and if I get jacked online, good luck to the criminal jacking it, there isn't ever money on it for more than a few hours at a time. The point is, I stopped being beholden to the CC companies years ago when they were trying to constantly change interest rates. Capital One did that to me when I was 18, during basic training, I missed 1 payment on the card by 2 days (I was in the field on an FTX) and they changed my rate from 6% to 27%.
No I did not have to walk to school in the snow, up hill both way... all the time. However, I did play a great many sports, I spent time out doors, I read, I wrote and I played music. Each of those things has given me the life I have had. From being in the U.S. Army to owning a software development firm. Had I not had those, had I sat at home and played nintendo and sega all day, had I allowed computers to do all of my thinking for me, I would be nothing of what I am.
If we rely so heavily on a computer to do even the most mundane of necessary, we are fucked when we don't have one.
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It wouldnt matter if you develop outside of the country, they government could simply require that all IP software being sold within the US have the backdoors and voila, your money saving privacy scheme is gone because now you cant sell to the US market.
The only way to work this out is to actually stand up to the government and say "STOP!"
and just who do you say we vote in? the next guy that will do the same thing, but said he wouldn't during the election? Get real. The problem lies in the system of electing people who WANT to be in those positions rather than people who are actually qualified to be in them. I do not give 2 shits if a politician has experience in foreign policy if that self same politician is making, executing or ruling on IP Law. I want people that actually understand what IP law is and the technologies involved doing that.
Here were refer to it as "Ex Post Facto" law. You cannot prosecute someone for committing a crime before the act was made a crime. Which, completely gets ignored here in the US if they back date the law within the law itself. Meaning, they can write into the bill "Any act committed on or before x date" where x date can be several years prior to the passing of the law.
Federal Tort Claims Act of 1946 says otherwise.
Incorrect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tort
The US Government can be sued under the Federal Tort Claims Act of 1946 for "financial injury" if any was sustained.
Probable Cause is listed as: "A reasonable belief that a person has committed a crime. The test the court of appeals employs to determine whether probable cause existed for purposes of arrest is whether facts and circumstances within the officer's knowledge are sufficient to warrant a prudent person to believe a suspect has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime. U.S. v. Puerta, 982 F.2d 1297, 1300 (9th Cir. 1992). In terms of seizure of items, probable cause merely requires that the facts available to the officer warrants a "man of reasonable caution" to conclude that certain items may be contraband or stolen property or useful as evidence of a crime. U.S. v. Dunn, 946 F.2d 615, 619 (9th Cir. 1991), cert. Denied, 112 S. Ct. 401 (1992)." src: cite
What this means is that, any issuing authority can go before a judge and explain a "reasonble suspicion" of a criminal act, under oath, and have a warrant for arrest or seizure issued by that magistrate.
You do have recourse if the government issues a warrant and your property is seized using a invalid warrant. Anything from "suppression of evidence" if you are being charged with a crime, to civil suits based on damage accrued.
Any of the 84,000 sites that were accidentally cut off, including FreeDNS' have the legal right to sue in civil court for any lost revenue and/or other damages pursuant to the civil code of the state the business is registered in.
You should actually read the damn PDF.
"Explanation: This proposal meets a number of compelling goals. First it will diminish the potential for blocking of top level domain strings considered objectionable by governments, which harms the architecture of the DNS and undermines the goal of universal resolvability. Second, affording governments the opportunity, through the GAC, to advise the ICANN Board that there is consensus GAC advice regarding particular proposed strings that should not be processed is supportive of ICANN’s commitment to ensure that its decision are in the global public interest."
The proposal isn't designed to limit the new TLDs, it isn't designed to give control to 1 government. Currently, propsed TLD's are reviewed by 3, that's THREE people "“three experts recognized as eminent jurists of international reputation". That's more scary to me than allowing 100 nations to vote, object, advise on new TLD issues.
Read the damn PDF The only real objectionable protion is section 4 on intellectual rights.
Apparently you do not actually know as much about "The War between the States" as you would like to think you do.
1) Several northern states not only allowed slavery, but endorsed it to lower manufacturing costs.
2) Slavery did not enter into the war as a political objective until Lincoln realized that France, England and Germany were assisting the southern states to the extent of nearly entering the war themselves. England, France and Germany were providing arms and munitions to the southern armies, along with advisors, and France was running the northern blockades to import supplies to them.
3) The "State's Right's" issue was based on the fact that the southern states were selling tobacco, cotton and other trade goods to England and France, who were then reselling the goods back to the northern manufacturers at a marked up price. The northern manufacturers cried to the federal government to intercede and force the southern states to sell first to the north, which was less profitable. Thus they refused and threatened to withdraw from the union if the federal government tried to force them.
4) The Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, 2 years into the war, NOT at the onset as most think. The reasoning behind the Proclamation was not to persuade more Americans to side with the north, but to force Europe out of the war since slavery was anathema in western Europe. And it worked.
It's thoroughly amazing how much people still do not know the correct versions of history. I have a very good friend from New York that moved here to Atlanta a few years ago. Until recently, he was under the impression that the south had started the war by invading the north and attempting to overthrow the government. This theory was backed up by one of his history books that he had from school. He was very surprised to learn that Robert E. Lee Sat on the border of D.C with the Army of Northern Virginia declining to invade D.C. in hopes that he could negotiate with the federal government to cease their aggression towards the Confederacy. He was also amazed to find out that, "That damn racist" as he termed Lee, was actually Lincoln's first choice to lead the armies of the north. Again he was amazed to find out that one of the reasons that the south was still behind the times in regards to infrastructure was due to huge swaths of the south being razed to the ground on Sherman's march to the sea.
Yes. There is a rare occasion when I dont get that high, but it's usually when there is something going on near where I live, festivals etc. I assume it's because of the bombardment of radio waves.
my 100+ gigs of transfer per month due to site hosting, data transfers, downloads, uploads, movie watching, torrenting and a myriad of other uses which was VERY quickly throttled by comcast, has yet not been throttled at all by clear in the 15 or so months that I have been using them. I also host nearly a dozen 24 hour broadcast internet radio stations. Clear hasn't said/mailed or otherwise notified me of any additional charges or throttled my bandwidth... at all. Comcast on the other hand throttled me to 64kbs, disabled connections that exceeeded 30MBs of download and billed me for over $1000 in additional fees for bandwidth usage. To top that off, Comcast had, and still has, acccording to my employees, clients and friends, very frequent outages with no notification even when they are planned. Clear however, decided to upgrade 1 of the 5 towers near me and sent me 3 emails telling me that I may have a service interruption due to the upgrades and if so, reboot my modem to have it reconnect to a new tower.
I am extremely happy with Clear.
No problems here in Atlanta for me. 13Mbs down, 4Mbps up, 56ms ping. Been using them since they came here and i've only ever had 1 issue which was solved by a reset.
I'm sorry, I was making what should have been worded more correctly as a humorous rejoinder to HiMorons' comment.
I cant see what you all are complaining about. I am using chrome on vista and I am not having any of these issues at all. The sidebar is not hiding content, the pages load just fine (i do have no ads checked as an option) and I'm actually liking the clean ,simplistic design here. Makes it much easier for me to read w/o my glasses.
I like how the European Union is handling bringing in employees from outside the EU. I recently applied for a position with a company in the EU and was denied due to the fact that they would have had to submit a nearly 800 page brief explaining why they were hiring an American instead of an EU citizen. In addition to some countries slapping some serious taxes on companies that are outsourcing labor. Tax it till they cant afford to hire outside labor anymore and it will either end, or they will leave that country which will make room for someone to take their place.
If our colors are Red, White and Blue... where are the white ties at?
What is not crazy in normal everyday life is absolutely crazy when you are one of the people that is trying to run the government.
"I can see Russia from my backyard" -- Palin (R) ALaska
I can see Mars and Venus as well, does that make me an expert on foreign affairs in regards to Martians and Venutians?
"You save only 59 seconds over 8 miles by going 75 instead of 65. Do you really have to pass that guy? Do the Math!" Yes because on the 800 mile trips I make monthly, it saves me an hour and 40 mins each way.
I did, didn't you?
"Amicus Curiae: Literally, friend of the court. A person with strong interest in or views on the subject matter of an action, but not a party to the action, may petition the court for permission to file a brief, ostensibly on behalf of a party but actually to suggest a rationale consistent with its own views. Such amicus curiae briefs are commonly filed in appeals concerning matters of a broad public interest; e.g., civil rights cases. They may be filed by private persons or the government. In appeals to the U.S. courts of appeals, an amicus brief may be filed only if accompanied by written consent of all parties, or by leave of court granted on motion or at the request of the court, except that consent or leave shall not be required when the brief is presented by the United States or an officer or agency thereof." -- legal-dictionary.freedictionary.com This means that in cases such as the legality of the suits filed by the *IAA's, he will have the ability to file amicus curiae briefs on behalf of the administration and/or the *IAA's. It doesn't have to mean that the government was directly implicated in anything, but it is a preparatory action for the future class action suits that will be filed against them.
It is honestly no different that police forces using helicopters to patrol high crime areas.
Yes China can, it is a communist country, they can quite literally do whatever they want within the borders of their country including denying bank transfers between citizens and/or businesses both nationally and internationally.
Read the history and current mythology of the Caldari State in Eve-Online. It is where we are headed. Here
I use a Netspend Prepaid card for all online transactions. If I have a heavy month of online spending, I will pay their $8.99 monthly fee for that month, otherwise I just pay $1 per transaction. In my area, there are literally a dozen locations, 2 within a 2 minute walk that will INSTANTLY load whatever $ amount I choose onto the card, or I can use my bank account and have it in 24 hours. I load only what I need to on the card and if I get jacked online, good luck to the criminal jacking it, there isn't ever money on it for more than a few hours at a time. The point is, I stopped being beholden to the CC companies years ago when they were trying to constantly change interest rates. Capital One did that to me when I was 18, during basic training, I missed 1 payment on the card by 2 days (I was in the field on an FTX) and they changed my rate from 6% to 27%.
Nope, Atlanta too. Last time I went, I was told Debit or cash only.
No I did not have to walk to school in the snow, up hill both way... all the time. However, I did play a great many sports, I spent time out doors, I read, I wrote and I played music. Each of those things has given me the life I have had. From being in the U.S. Army to owning a software development firm. Had I not had those, had I sat at home and played nintendo and sega all day, had I allowed computers to do all of my thinking for me, I would be nothing of what I am.
If we rely so heavily on a computer to do even the most mundane of necessary, we are fucked when we don't have one.