So long as this sort of thing is legal/unregulated, you can assume every employer will do this in the name of productivity/competitiveness/because they can.
Would you not do such monitoring if you had a babysitter or any other house help? Do you want it illegalized/regulated? Oh, maybe, not you personally, but would you consider it unreasonable? Surveillance camera-systems are hot items at the electronics stores with multiple systems available from different vendors (most hubs run Linux, BTW)...
Point is, we are all employers to some extent or another. Don't ask for bogus regulation — it will come back and bite you or someone else you did not mean to affect, even if your intent was to hurt only the most "corporationy" of the corporations...
While there's no question that the production of child porn should be illegal (afterall a child had to be abused in the making of it)
Many jurisdiction equally outlaw movies, where adult actors play abused children. No child is hurt during those makings, and yet they are (highly) illegal...
Have the English forgot all of these thousands of government killings and yet still remember Guy Fawkes who did not manage to kill a single person?
If I were British I would be considerably more afraid of my government than any terrorist.
You have to judge these (and many others, actually) things by intent — not the results. Fawkes intended to "behead" the existing government of the country, ushering temporary chaos and the inevitable (new) civil war over the restoration of Catholicism. That he did not, actually, succeed is completely irrelevant.
None of the deeds you list as the government's follies were intended to be the massacres, that they ended up being. None of them ended up, actually, as bloody, as what Guy Fawkes intended — but that, too, is irrelevant...
...Delhi's insistence on using diplomacy to resolve the Iranian nuclear controversy". Heaven forbid we do something other than run in, kill a million of them and destroy their country.
Chamberlain was a big adherent of diplomacy too... Tens of millions died only a few years after he claimed to have secured "peace in our time".
Topping it off with "everything's a commie plot".
No, not everything. Just a lot of things in India. The success of Soviet propaganda and subversion in India was the pride of USSR's worst. India is still recovering from it.
You're either a very good tongue in cheek troll, or the type of american I'm most scared of.
Am I the only one that sees value in preserving important parts of our history for future generations?
There are only two options here:
Either there are enough people like you to help this museum with their donations.
Or there aren't enough people like you and the museum will close.
The third way you'd like (and your current pro-Democrat sig is what makes me think so) is to tax everyone (whatever the rest of us think of this museum) and help this museum with those taxes. Fortunately, this approach is not an option in this case...
And let me preempt any switch to my own persona by saying, that I did know about this place for a while, having read both a documentary account of American/British cryptanalysis during WW2 and Neal Stephenson's fiction on the subject.
I do find BP fascinating, but I'm not sure, I would go to visit it in person on my visit to UK. There are place which one must see, BP is something one must read about...
They did not lift a finger to protect Alan Turing — Bletchley Park's main hero — after the war. Why should the place, where he worked, fare any better?..
Well, actually, the quantum unit of information is a bit.
Is it? There may be a piece of information smaller than one bit or otherwise not integer number of bits... For example, confirmation of the more probable of two possible options would be less than a bit, while choosing the less probable one would be more than a bit (but less than two)...
Considering, that humans give birth to slightly more girls than boys, announcing to your family, that your child is a female transfers (very slightly) less than a bit of information...
It surprises some people, because the current (highly unpopular) Administration of the US has criticized Syria very harshly for, basically, being evil.
A substantial (and highly vocal) group of Americans consider the President himself to be the evil incarnate, and thus take his words and actions to mean the exact opposite. Just recently one of their major leaders even visited Syria — much to the delight of the country's dictatorship and in direct violation of the federal law...
Pelosi's followers must be dumbfounded (those, for whom this is not the permanent state), that anybody could be imprisoned for "undermining the prestige of the state and weakening national morale" anywhere outside of Bush's America (where they suffer daily persecutions in their fight for a better tomorrow), and especially in the friendly and peaceful Syria...
Awesome... Once again, the America's critics don't even realize, that they continue to live (and outside of prison), and criticize the government only because some of the things they say are simply not true...
You are not answering the question: "Which atrocity did we avoid by not using civilian installations for military purposes?"
So, name it — what was it that our enemies could've done to us, but chose not to because of our not using civilians installations for military purposes?
BTW, did you know, that the entire transportation network is "dual use" — there are not purely military roads? That military (has designed and) uses the Internet? "Breathtakingly shortsighted"?
The US has always (until recently) adhered to international laws of war for very good reasons; this recent call to abaondon them is a terrifying development, because it invites atrocities against our soldiers as well as our civilian populations.
Do tell me, which atrocity we avoided by doing so... What was it, that Iraq, Afghanistan, Panama, Vietnam, Korea, Germany or Japan could've hit, but chose not to because of our (continuing) adherence?
Starting in the early 1990's, with a push from the Clinton-Gore Administration's "Information Superhighway" [...] Wouldn't you like your $2000 back?
I would. And I think, the Clintons — along with Al Gore — ought to cough it all up. After all, the Vice President — and his supporters — continue to credit him with for "the Internet", even if the (in)famous "I invented Internet" is not taken seriously...
It was an idiotic idea to begin with — as most statist ideas are, and we should not perpetuate it. The chickens of the "natural monopoly" fallacy keep coming home to pinch us in various body-parts.
And it makes the civilian population a legitimate military target.
No more so, than allowing a military commander to use your phone — or refrigerator. Your premises get "upgraded" from being "civilian" to "dual use", but none of America's real enemies today care for that fancy legal distinction anyway.
A little like hiding the missiles in the churches.
Yeah, that must be why TrustedBSD is copying SELinux
There is no "copying". They all implement the same features and ideas designed by the same people for the same purpose. From NSA's, DARPA's et al. perspective, this is simply "dual sourcing" — what customers with huge budgets and strict requirements are supposed to do for redundancy.
They need them all for their multitude of servers. But since FreeBSD is better to begin with, you want it for your smaller establishment, unless already "married" to Linux for some other reason — just as I said before;-)
The page you sent me to describes SEBSD as a port, not a "copy". Guess what? Firefox is a port too. Does it make it somehow inferior?.. Mozilla's primary target-platform is Windows — what you have on Linux is also, what you'd call "a copy".
Unless you are married to Linux already for some reason, you'll want TrustedBSD. Built on top of/as extension to FreeBSD, it had a substantial head-start...
The real enemy would be attacking/scanning/jamming from many directions — using hired and/or own botnet(s) and other already cracked-into computers belonging to other schools, governments, individuals, corporations, and other organizations.
The participants in the exercise weren't allowed to do that, except, maybe, for NSA and their near-universal root-access...
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Would you not do such monitoring if you had a babysitter or any other house help? Do you want it illegalized/regulated? Oh, maybe, not you personally, but would you consider it unreasonable? Surveillance camera-systems are hot items at the electronics stores with multiple systems available from different vendors (most hubs run Linux, BTW)...
Point is, we are all employers to some extent or another. Don't ask for bogus regulation — it will come back and bite you or someone else you did not mean to affect, even if your intent was to hurt only the most "corporationy" of the corporations...
Many jurisdiction equally outlaw movies, where adult actors play abused children. No child is hurt during those makings, and yet they are (highly) illegal...
You have to judge these (and many others, actually) things by intent — not the results. Fawkes intended to "behead" the existing government of the country, ushering temporary chaos and the inevitable (new) civil war over the restoration of Catholicism. That he did not, actually, succeed is completely irrelevant.
None of the deeds you list as the government's follies were intended to be the massacres, that they ended up being. None of them ended up, actually, as bloody, as what Guy Fawkes intended — but that, too, is irrelevant...
Who said anything, about the relationship being abusive? There is evident lack of trust, but "abusive"?..
Uhm, a bit of fear-mongering, but Ok...
Hold on, how can something, that can not kill you, possibly ever be "as bad or perhaps worse", than something, that can?
What if you think, that it was your fault — fully or in large enough part to try to repair?
Which part of my current sig do you disagree with?
Chamberlain was a big adherent of diplomacy too... Tens of millions died only a few years after he claimed to have secured "peace in our time".
No, not everything. Just a lot of things in India. The success of Soviet propaganda and subversion in India was the pride of USSR's worst. India is still recovering from it.
Be afraid...
Democracy is required for respectability. It is not, however, sufficient... Try to understand the difference, and you'll make some real progress.
Yeah-yeah... This would've held some water, if "the public" had any other use for this resource. It does not.
Yes, it is legal. Writing your program to not do it, when you think it should not be doing it, is legal too.
Which part of my: "blame/petition/sue NBC, not Microsoft," — was so difficult for you to understand?
For years I was rooting for the country as a rising Democracy and a counter-balance to the rising Communist dictatorship of China.
And then, boom-boom-boom came the disappointments of their refusal to join us in Iraq, to support Tibetans, to censure Iran, and now this...
Maybe, the USSR-created Communist infestation has something to do with it...
Makes perfect sense to me... If the creators don't want it recorded, it should not be recorded. Blame/petition/sue NBC, not Microsoft.
Yes and this can be summarized even more: The more open it is, the easier it is to close down.
I think, this is what "GPL vs. BSDL" debates boil down to:
There are only two options here:
The third way you'd like (and your current pro-Democrat sig is what makes me think so) is to tax everyone (whatever the rest of us think of this museum) and help this museum with those taxes. Fortunately, this approach is not an option in this case...
And let me preempt any switch to my own persona by saying, that I did know about this place for a while, having read both a documentary account of American/British cryptanalysis during WW2 and Neal Stephenson's fiction on the subject.
I do find BP fascinating, but I'm not sure, I would go to visit it in person on my visit to UK. There are place which one must see, BP is something one must read about...
They did not lift a finger to protect Alan Turing — Bletchley Park's main hero — after the war. Why should the place, where he worked, fare any better?..
Is it? There may be a piece of information smaller than one bit or otherwise not integer number of bits... For example, confirmation of the more probable of two possible options would be less than a bit, while choosing the less probable one would be more than a bit (but less than two)...
Considering, that humans give birth to slightly more girls than boys, announcing to your family, that your child is a female transfers (very slightly) less than a bit of information...
Use the proper term, darn it:
It surprises some people, because the current (highly unpopular) Administration of the US has criticized Syria very harshly for, basically, being evil.
A substantial (and highly vocal) group of Americans consider the President himself to be the evil incarnate, and thus take his words and actions to mean the exact opposite. Just recently one of their major leaders even visited Syria — much to the delight of the country's dictatorship and in direct violation of the federal law...
Pelosi's followers must be dumbfounded (those, for whom this is not the permanent state), that anybody could be imprisoned for "undermining the prestige of the state and weakening national morale" anywhere outside of Bush's America (where they suffer daily persecutions in their fight for a better tomorrow), and especially in the friendly and peaceful Syria...
Awesome... Once again, the America's critics don't even realize, that they continue to live (and outside of prison), and criticize the government only because some of the things they say are simply not true...
The write-up says:
If we are observing it (the light, that left the start 28000 years ago) now, the start must be about 28140 years old...
You are not answering the question: "Which atrocity did we avoid by not using civilian installations for military purposes?"
So, name it — what was it that our enemies could've done to us, but chose not to because of our not using civilians installations for military purposes?
BTW, did you know, that the entire transportation network is "dual use" — there are not purely military roads? That military (has designed and) uses the Internet? "Breathtakingly shortsighted"?
Do tell me, which atrocity we avoided by doing so... What was it, that Iraq, Afghanistan, Panama, Vietnam, Korea, Germany or Japan could've hit, but chose not to because of our (continuing) adherence?
I would. And I think, the Clintons — along with Al Gore — ought to cough it all up. After all, the Vice President — and his supporters — continue to credit him with for "the Internet", even if the (in)famous "I invented Internet" is not taken seriously...
It was an idiotic idea to begin with — as most statist ideas are, and we should not perpetuate it. The chickens of the "natural monopoly" fallacy keep coming home to pinch us in various body-parts.
No more so, than allowing a military commander to use your phone — or refrigerator. Your premises get "upgraded" from being "civilian" to "dual use", but none of America's real enemies today care for that fancy legal distinction anyway.
Not quite, not quite...
There is no "copying". They all implement the same features and ideas designed by the same people for the same purpose. From NSA's, DARPA's et al. perspective, this is simply "dual sourcing" — what customers with huge budgets and strict requirements are supposed to do for redundancy.
They need them all for their multitude of servers. But since FreeBSD is better to begin with, you want it for your smaller establishment, unless already "married" to Linux for some other reason — just as I said before ;-)
The page you sent me to describes SEBSD as a port, not a "copy". Guess what? Firefox is a port too. Does it make it somehow inferior?.. Mozilla's primary target-platform is Windows — what you have on Linux is also, what you'd call "a copy".
Unless you are married to Linux already for some reason, you'll want TrustedBSD. Built on top of/as extension to FreeBSD, it had a substantial head-start...
The real enemy would be attacking/scanning/jamming from many directions — using hired and/or own botnet(s) and other already cracked-into computers belonging to other schools, governments, individuals, corporations, and other organizations.
The participants in the exercise weren't allowed to do that, except, maybe, for NSA and their near-universal root-access...