"Just because I give you the Cat scanner, it does not immediately give you the right to go into business against me with my own technology," Davis said.
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Here's my response:
"Just because you give me the Cat scanner, it does not immediately give you the right to track my every move on the internet using a freakin' serial # and not have the decency to tell me about it."
When you're at work, using your workplace's computer systems, e-mail facilities, etc., why the hell SHOULDN'T they be able to monitor it? You're not paying for the privelage to use their e-mail system. When you're at HOME, on your OWN, PERSONAL computer, that you paid for along with your ISP service, then you have the right to privacy.
I feel like the American society has been pushed into a corner by their own government. I'm only 20, but when I think about days before my time, where a town would probably go up in riot if a police officer demanded to search a citizen's car, I feel like we're already way past 1984's concept. Sure, they had cameras in houses, but the technology we have now is much better than that. They can snoop on people without them even KNOWING it! I just renewed my license recently and was appaled that the same signature that gave the DMV the "right to process my request" for a new license was bound to the same F*CK*NG signature that waves my right to refuse a blood/alcohol test to a peace officer. So if I didn't sign it, I wouldn't get my license. School locker inspections, alcohol screening tests, security cameras EVERYWHERE you go (inside OR outside), cameras at stoplights, giving the authority to police to inspect just about anything of yours due to "probable cause", what's next? The police get a remote control that can kill cars' ignition system on demand, unlock doors from a satelite? Oh, I forgot, they've already got that with the new generation 3 ECU's in cars in production after what, '98? Sure, give them authority to read your e-mail. Now I'll be scared to send my girlfriend an e-mail saying something was "bomb". Can you see where we're headed? A controlled society. Are we already there? Who can tell? The next generation will be even more adapt to this kind of bullshit than we are now. Fuck that. Use PGP. At lest we've got one line of defense against this kind of intrusion.
Ok. I have almost 10GB's of mp3's, like many, many people out there. I didn't pay for most of it. I have a burner, too. I decode the mp3's into CDR files and burn them onto a cd so I can listen to them in my car. That's stealing. Yeah, the recording industry is ripping us off BIG TIME for the music we pay for, but that doesn't make it ok for us to take it for free. It's just not ours. We had no contribution to make the music we take. I did, however buy a CD for the first time in about 6 months the other day - I think that about makes up for the music I've stolen... =) I'm not saying what the music industry does is right (not by ANY means) but what we're doing isn't exactly honest either. Oh well - it's a catch-22 I guess.
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"Just because I give you the Cat scanner, it does not immediately give you the right to go into business against me with my own technology," Davis said.
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Here's my response:
"Just because you give me the Cat scanner, it does not immediately give you the right to track my every move on the internet using a freakin' serial # and not have the decency to tell me about it."
Suck my white ass, DC.
When you're at work, using your workplace's computer systems, e-mail facilities, etc., why the hell SHOULDN'T they be able to monitor it? You're not paying for the privelage to use their e-mail system. When you're at HOME, on your OWN, PERSONAL computer, that you paid for along with your ISP service, then you have the right to privacy.
I feel like the American society has been pushed into a corner by their own government. I'm only 20, but when I think about days before my time, where a town would probably go up in riot if a police officer demanded to search a citizen's car, I feel like we're already way past 1984's concept. Sure, they had cameras in houses, but the technology we have now is much better than that. They can snoop on people without them even KNOWING it! I just renewed my license recently and was appaled that the same signature that gave the DMV the "right to process my request" for a new license was bound to the same F*CK*NG signature that waves my right to refuse a blood/alcohol test to a peace officer. So if I didn't sign it, I wouldn't get my license. School locker inspections, alcohol screening tests, security cameras EVERYWHERE you go (inside OR outside), cameras at stoplights, giving the authority to police to inspect just about anything of yours due to "probable cause", what's next? The police get a remote control that can kill cars' ignition system on demand, unlock doors from a satelite? Oh, I forgot, they've already got that with the new generation 3 ECU's in cars in production after what, '98? Sure, give them authority to read your e-mail. Now I'll be scared to send my girlfriend an e-mail saying something was "bomb". Can you see where we're headed? A controlled society. Are we already there? Who can tell? The next generation will be even more adapt to this kind of bullshit than we are now. Fuck that. Use PGP. At lest we've got one line of defense against this kind of intrusion.
win.com, you troll. =p~
Ok. I have almost 10GB's of mp3's, like many, many people out there. I didn't pay for most of it. I have a burner, too. I decode the mp3's into CDR files and burn them onto a cd so I can listen to them in my car. That's stealing. Yeah, the recording industry is ripping us off BIG TIME for the music we pay for, but that doesn't make it ok for us to take it for free. It's just not ours. We had no contribution to make the music we take. I did, however buy a CD for the first time in about 6 months the other day - I think that about makes up for the music I've stolen... =) I'm not saying what the music industry does is right (not by ANY means) but what we're doing isn't exactly honest either. Oh well - it's a catch-22 I guess.