If the NY politicians care about laws, maybe they should start with this one:
New York Constitution - It forbids the legislature from limiting free speech. It was written an era when our founders routinely wrote "anonymous" pamphlets. They considered it a fundamental right.
Yes. We should continue supporting an obsolete paperbased service that has been replaced by internet service. Hell let's bring back the Pony Express! And carriage service. I can't wait to see my mailman ride-up on his carriage, with a stamp "pony express delivery from California" on the front. (Obsolete things should be allowed to pass into the dustbin of history, not eternally funded.)
>>>Sure, they run clean ads for the first few months of the election year, but mostly the ads are, "Look at the fire demon I'm running against. He eats babies and punched orphans. I do not." We are forced to look at the bad of (a) vs the bad of (b), instead of what (a) and (b) really stand for.
Funny you mention that. John Adams ran a similar ad against Thomas Jefferson in 1800. He said if Jefferson were elected, "your daughters would be subject to his fiery desires and become whores in the streets". Vice-versa Jefferson's ad said Adams was a sickly man of ill repute and beady eyes. The idea that U.S. elections used to be clean are a falsehood. They have always been dirty.
(1) Some of ye are confused. "Metering" refers not to time metering but data metering. Like Comcast's recent decision to give 350 GB as a base, plus ~$5 for every 50GB over the limit.
(2) Will Romney be different than Obama? Yes but still the same overall effect. Obama's signing of ACTA and support for SOPA, shows he is a puppet of the media corporations. In contrast Romney doesn't care about Hollywood, because he's busy serving the military corporations. So it's tyranny #1 versus tyranny #2. Take you pick.
>>>Third world economies desperately need to transition from subsitence farming to producing cash crops.
What is ACTUALLY happening is that Monsanto is driving 3rd world farmers into bankruptcy, as the seeds can not be reused for next year's crop (they are sterile). It traps 3rd world persons in a debt slavery. The suicide level among Indian and African farmers has skyrocketed to the highest level.
ALSO: The interesting bit of this story is that France is no longer a sovereign nation. The E.U. now has the power to overrule the French government's decision to ban GM food..... that's more power than even the U.S. government has over its states. France is now just a province of the EU .
Finally someone recognizes that the "cloud" is a danger to security. It's understandable that IBM would not want Apple being aware of what their employees are working on.
Do you think Microsoft cares? They just want to spin the story to cover-up IE's downfall, and don't care if they have to LIE about StatCounter's methodology (claiming they count preloads, when they don't).
The users will just say "Microsoft Office" or "Lotus Notes" and those have already been struckout as too costly. QUOTE: "good / cheap / free solution to email, contacts, calendaring and user management in general?"
Mozilla seaMonkey has all of those. Or you could try the individually separate programs of Firefox, Thunderbird, et cetera. Or maybe OPERA which has not only those functions but also online support for storage.
>>> The biggest problems with CISPA revolve around the potential for abuse, the lack of definition and accountability, and the way it superscedes all other privacy laws
The biggest problems is that it shouldn't exist. It's nothing more than a way for RIAA/MPAA to monitor your downloads, and then send you extortionate letters demanding $5000 "or else we'll drag you to court". It is also a way for the DHS to spy upon you and censor your internet access if they don't like what you say (for example: supporting Campaign for Liberty). Or maybe just arrest you outright under the NDAA's "anti-terrorist without right-to-trial provision.
Nor do we need "cybersecurity". The best security is to pull critical systems (power plants, classified computers) off the internet.
Bottom Line: There is NOTHING defensible about CISPA, and that you chose to do so makes me wonder if you are an enemy of the Bill of Rights. I suspect that you are. MOZILLA came-out against the bill. Microsoft, Apple, RIAA, MPAA, and other known-evil companies support it. Google should be siding with Mozilla, not with Monopolysoft.
Like Jefferson I have more faith in the voting masses to "do the right thing" than in politicians that are bought-and-paid-for by the corporations and serve either (a) those corporations or (b) their own personal desires for wealth/power and say "fuck you" to the voice of the people.
Jefferson said the Supreme Court is a dangerous oligarchy that is not subject to the "elective control of the people". The same is now true of the House since they don't give a damn about what the People think (over 70% of them opposed TARP) or the risk of being voted out.
CISPA's problem is also the goals. Its mission is to make all the data held by ISPs and websites be turned-over to the government, so they will know the websurf history of every American. The bill should not be "fixed" to make this task easier. It should be burned.
But you wouldn't understand. Just as people cheered-on FDR when he rounded-up japanese-Americans. Some people love serfdom more than freedom.
>>>if people could just vote themselves a check each week, that amount would never go down, until the government collapsed.
(1) That's happening now. U.S. + State debt is nearing 20 trillion (almost $200,000 per home). I think the people are well aware that's not sustainable and want cuts, but the politicians keep voting for more spending anyway. So it's the *politicians* that are the problem and they need to moved out of the way. Put House bills to direct referendum.
(2) You've overlooked that the Senate, the President, and the Supreme Court would still be structured the same as now. They'd still have the power to block bad (or unconstitutional) laws passed by the People's House of Representatives. It would not be a pure democracy. It would still be a republic (rule of law).
>>>But you simply can't prevent an organization (incorporated or otherwise) from advertizing in favor of a candidate they like without directly destroying free speech. >>>
Individuals have rights. Individual humans. Not dogs. Or trees. Or rock. Or buildings. Or corporations (which are government creations, not naturally occuring in nature). And yes a group of individuals CAN still speak..... as individuals. For example nobody is denying the right of the ~100,000 GM employees from speaking. Or donating. It is merely GM that is being muzzled, not the individuals inside the building.
"Stealing" is depriving another person of their property. For example if I steal a TV from a Walmart display, then I have deprived them the enjoyment of their TV.
But when I copy a movie, I have not deprived the owner. He still has his movie and can still watch it any time he desires.
>>>I can't see how an average person will use more than about 1TB of space any time soon
P.S. If I wanted to be really anal, I could argue that my Commodore 64 played music with only 0.00006 GB of memory, and my Amiga did videos with only 0.00025 GB of memory. In consoles, Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis only used ~.004 gigabyte cartridges. Why on earth would anybody need more than that? Answer: Media grows in size and needs more storage space.
No but they might download a pirate rip of a BRD.:-)
>>>RAM has probably hit a peak with consumers who simply don't need more than 3 or 4Gb for what they want to do
It's not the average Joe who is carelessly consuming RAM. It's the programmers. I remember when I bought my PC in 2002 and it had half-a-gig of space. That was almost 10 times more than the minimum recommended by Microsoft XP. It ran superfast! But NOW the Flash has grown, the browser has grown, and even the office tools have grown.
I'm not doing anything differently (still watching VHS-quality videos and typing documents), but the programs are gobbling more & more space so my "superfast" PC now runs like a snail (especially with flash). In a few years the programmers will make even 3GB feel claustrophobic. In fact I'd say it's already starting.
Precisely. When my dh0: drive got full, I thought about copying it over to usb0: but when I looked at what was there, I realized I didn't need "Beauty and the Geek" or "Transformers 2" or "Billboard's Hot 1000 songs of the 1960s" so I erased them. I freed-up about 100 GB of junk I never should have kept in the first place.
It's that they did MORE of it. I guess the depressed student sits in front of his computer 16 hours a day, while the nondepressed student turns it off and goes off to do something. Also the article says they suffer from ADD-like symptoms... constantly jumping from website to email to downloading and back to the web.
Hmmm. I guess I'm depressed. Actually it's more like "bored".
But Comcast says THEY paid for the cable channels (about 50 cents per channel) and therefore the shows belong to them, and should not be distributed online. Is comcast wrong? In what way?
>>>having a private entity do the data collection as an agent of the government sidesteps this little annoyance
Not quite. You can still sue the private telephone company for sharing your private data w/o your permission. That's why CISPA in in Congress now..... to eliminate your ability to sue them. (Only Netscape/Mozilla is opposing this; the other companies support its passage.)
Of course. Nothing's changed from the "old paper based world" except that governments are NOT following the same rules. The old world had protections like judge-issued warrants to keep the people secure in their homes, persons, and effects.
NOW the governments are just side-stepping the judges/warrants process and going direct to searching us. Our homes are still secure (unless you have natural milk in the fridge), but not our persons or our effects (data).
You are confused. It can probably DISPLAY 1920x1080, but lacks the power to play full video at speed. Like the computer I have at home.
This thing also lacks sufficient memory. A modern-day browser like Chrome with Flash will not run properly on just 512MB of RAM. I know; I've tried. It's like a snail.
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If the NY politicians care about laws, maybe they should start with this one:
New York Constitution
- It forbids the legislature from limiting free speech. It was written an era when our founders routinely wrote "anonymous" pamphlets. They considered it a fundamental right.
Yes. We should continue supporting an obsolete paperbased service that has been replaced by internet service. Hell let's bring back the Pony Express! And carriage service. I can't wait to see my mailman ride-up on his carriage, with a stamp "pony express delivery from California" on the front. (Obsolete things should be allowed to pass into the dustbin of history, not eternally funded.)
>>>Sure, they run clean ads for the first few months of the election year, but mostly the ads are, "Look at the fire demon I'm running against. He eats babies and punched orphans. I do not." We are forced to look at the bad of (a) vs the bad of (b), instead of what (a) and (b) really stand for.
Funny you mention that.
John Adams ran a similar ad against Thomas Jefferson in 1800. He said if Jefferson were elected, "your daughters would be subject to his fiery desires and become whores in the streets". Vice-versa Jefferson's ad said Adams was a sickly man of ill repute and beady eyes.
The idea that U.S. elections used to be clean are a falsehood. They have always been dirty.
(1) Some of ye are confused. "Metering" refers not to time metering but data metering. Like Comcast's recent decision to give 350 GB as a base, plus ~$5 for every 50GB over the limit.
(2) Will Romney be different than Obama? Yes but still the same overall effect. Obama's signing of ACTA and support for SOPA, shows he is a puppet of the media corporations. In contrast Romney doesn't care about Hollywood, because he's busy serving the military corporations. So it's tyranny #1 versus tyranny #2. Take you pick.
>>>Third world economies desperately need to transition from subsitence farming to producing cash crops.
What is ACTUALLY happening is that Monsanto is driving 3rd world farmers into bankruptcy, as the seeds can not be reused for next year's crop (they are sterile). It traps 3rd world persons in a debt slavery. The suicide level among Indian and African farmers has skyrocketed to the highest level.
ALSO: The interesting bit of this story is that France is no longer a sovereign nation. The E.U. now has the power to overrule the French government's decision to ban GM food..... that's more power than even the U.S. government has over its states. France is now just a province of the EU
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Finally someone recognizes that the "cloud" is a danger to security. It's understandable that IBM would not want Apple being aware of what their employees are working on.
Do you think Microsoft cares? They just want to spin the story to cover-up IE's downfall, and don't care if they have to LIE about StatCounter's methodology (claiming they count preloads, when they don't).
The users will just say "Microsoft Office" or "Lotus Notes" and those have already been struckout as too costly. QUOTE: "good / cheap / free solution to email, contacts, calendaring and user management in general?"
Mozilla seaMonkey has all of those. Or you could try the individually separate programs of Firefox, Thunderbird, et cetera. Or maybe OPERA which has not only those functions but also online support for storage.
>>> The biggest problems with CISPA revolve around the potential for abuse, the lack of definition and accountability, and the way it superscedes all other privacy laws
The biggest problems is that it shouldn't exist. It's nothing more than a way for RIAA/MPAA to monitor your downloads, and then send you extortionate letters demanding $5000 "or else we'll drag you to court". It is also a way for the DHS to spy upon you and censor your internet access if they don't like what you say (for example: supporting Campaign for Liberty). Or maybe just arrest you outright under the NDAA's "anti-terrorist without right-to-trial provision.
Nor do we need "cybersecurity". The best security is to pull critical systems (power plants, classified computers) off the internet.
Bottom Line: There is NOTHING defensible about CISPA, and that you chose to do so makes me wonder if you are an enemy of the Bill of Rights. I suspect that you are. MOZILLA came-out against the bill. Microsoft, Apple, RIAA, MPAA, and other known-evil companies support it. Google should be siding with Mozilla, not with Monopolysoft.
Like Jefferson I have more faith in the voting masses to "do the right thing" than in politicians that are bought-and-paid-for by the corporations and serve either (a) those corporations or (b) their own personal desires for wealth/power and say "fuck you" to the voice of the people.
Jefferson said the Supreme Court is a dangerous oligarchy that is not subject to the "elective control of the people". The same is now true of the House since they don't give a damn about what the People think (over 70% of them opposed TARP) or the risk of being voted out.
CISPA's problem is also the goals. Its mission is to make all the data held by ISPs and websites be turned-over to the government, so they will know the websurf history of every American. The bill should not be "fixed" to make this task easier. It should be burned.
But you wouldn't understand.
Just as people cheered-on FDR when he rounded-up japanese-Americans.
Some people love serfdom more than freedom.
>>>if people could just vote themselves a check each week, that amount would never go down, until the government collapsed.
(1) That's happening now. U.S. + State debt is nearing 20 trillion (almost $200,000 per home). I think the people are well aware that's not sustainable and want cuts, but the politicians keep voting for more spending anyway. So it's the *politicians* that are the problem and they need to moved out of the way. Put House bills to direct referendum.
(2) You've overlooked that the Senate, the President, and the Supreme Court would still be structured the same as now. They'd still have the power to block bad (or unconstitutional) laws passed by the People's House of Representatives. It would not be a pure democracy. It would still be a republic (rule of law).
>>>But you simply can't prevent an organization (incorporated or otherwise) from advertizing in favor of a candidate they like without directly destroying free speech.
>>>
Individuals have rights. Individual humans. Not dogs. Or trees. Or rock. Or buildings. Or corporations (which are government creations, not naturally occuring in nature). And yes a group of individuals CAN still speak..... as individuals. For example nobody is denying the right of the ~100,000 GM employees from speaking. Or donating. It is merely GM that is being muzzled, not the individuals inside the building.
>>>In what way? People steal shit from them.
"Stealing" is depriving another person of their property. For example if I steal a TV from a Walmart display, then I have deprived them the enjoyment of their TV.
But when I copy a movie, I have not deprived the owner. He still has his movie and can still watch it any time he desires.
>>>I can't see how an average person will use more than about 1TB of space any time soon
P.S. If I wanted to be really anal, I could argue that my Commodore 64 played music with only 0.00006 GB of memory, and my Amiga did videos with only 0.00025 GB of memory. In consoles, Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis only used ~.004 gigabyte cartridges. Why on earth would anybody need more than that? Answer: Media grows in size and needs more storage space.
>>>Average joe doesn't rip his blu-rays.
No but they might download a pirate rip of a BRD. :-)
>>>RAM has probably hit a peak with consumers who simply don't need more than 3 or 4Gb for what they want to do
It's not the average Joe who is carelessly consuming RAM. It's the programmers. I remember when I bought my PC in 2002 and it had half-a-gig of space. That was almost 10 times more than the minimum recommended by Microsoft XP. It ran superfast! But NOW the Flash has grown, the browser has grown, and even the office tools have grown.
I'm not doing anything differently (still watching VHS-quality videos and typing documents), but the programs are gobbling more & more space so my "superfast" PC now runs like a snail (especially with flash). In a few years the programmers will make even 3GB feel claustrophobic. In fact I'd say it's already starting.
Precisely. When my dh0: drive got full, I thought about copying it over to usb0: but when I looked at what was there, I realized I didn't need "Beauty and the Geek" or "Transformers 2" or "Billboard's Hot 1000 songs of the 1960s" so I erased them. I freed-up about 100 GB of junk I never should have kept in the first place.
Wow.
That's amazing.
And it would be six terabytes if you could squeeze the same density on a floppy.
Thanks(?) for sharing.
My employer disagrees:
http://thehackernews.com/ has been blocked. Reason: The category of Hacking has been blocked by your System Administrator
It's that they did MORE of it. I guess the depressed student sits in front of his computer 16 hours a day, while the nondepressed student turns it off and goes off to do something. Also the article says they suffer from ADD-like symptoms... constantly jumping from website to email to downloading and back to the web.
Hmmm.
I guess I'm depressed.
Actually it's more like "bored".
But Comcast says THEY paid for the cable channels (about 50 cents per channel) and therefore the shows belong to them, and should not be distributed online. Is comcast wrong? In what way?
>>>having a private entity do the data collection as an agent of the government sidesteps this little annoyance
Not quite. You can still sue the private telephone company for sharing your private data w/o your permission. That's why CISPA in in Congress now..... to eliminate your ability to sue them. (Only Netscape/Mozilla is opposing this; the other companies support its passage.)
Of course. Nothing's changed from the "old paper based world" except that governments are NOT following the same rules. The old world had protections like judge-issued warrants to keep the people secure in their homes, persons, and effects.
NOW the governments are just side-stepping the judges/warrants process and going direct to searching us. Our homes are still secure (unless you have natural milk in the fridge), but not our persons or our effects (data).
You are confused. It can probably DISPLAY 1920x1080, but lacks the power to play full video at speed. Like the computer I have at home.
This thing also lacks sufficient memory. A modern-day browser like Chrome with Flash will not run properly on just 512MB of RAM. I know; I've tried. It's like a snail.