How is it that people are concerned for their "privacy" when some tourist videotapes, say, a beach scene in Torquay , England ( I gather going to Torquay for a lovely afternoon in the rain is an old British tradition;-), yet every ten feet or so, on every street corner, on every block, in the country, and in every public bathroom and toilet stall, and every hallway and lobby, and every cafeteria is a CCTV camera spying on them.There's CCTV surveillance In every store, every pub, nightclub, arcade, every park, bridge, and even *under* every bridge. AFAIK, only the great Cathedrals haven't yet introduced them inside the pews and confessional booths.. although I expect the CofE might eventually just cave in on that matter.
And...yet, how is it these same people react with concern when someone inadvertently records them on their smartphone?
As regards networking..It's possibly the ONLY way to impress potential either future bosses or hiring managers, who are invariably members of the younger set, that us "self taught older types" can often be more competent and informed, simply by virtue of the fact that we not only are self starters, but chose our own "course material" and therefore are fully up to date on the subject matter.. having an active iinterest in it in the first place. Conversely, institutionally educated types spend a lot of time learning matters that they either have no interest in, or will never have to deal with.
When I had an on call computer repair biz, I dealt with unusual or uncommon systems.. even though a lot of my clients were, in fact hobbyists, they still had real issues with unix or , perhaps, SGI machines, or perhaps BeOS or even OS/2... and didn't know where to turn. We might have had a lot more search engines back then (15 years ago) but finding out what one actually needed to know was definitely harder, and in fact a lot of my calls were about trying to get these machines online in the first place..
I can assure you that had I taken any kind of course I wouldn't have ever learned any of this stuff. In fact I did take a course in the 70's where I (sort of) learned how to program , in binary! What a waste of education.
The only reason I got into computers anyways was because I got offered a position as special effects trainee at Bridge studios (Stargate SG-1, X-Files).. however, I simply couldn't learn computer skills fat enough to cinch the position.. (which was a condition). I didn't get offered this opportunity because of any education I might have had, but through networking only.. so that shows the potential value of it as opposed to a bunch of letters..
Why should it? In 1975(just before the Brazilian Freeze Coffee (an 8 oz cup) on average was 30 cents, 50 cents a year later)
From http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi
What cost $.30 in 1975 would cost $1.26 in 2012.
A Tall at Starbucks* is 1.35. And it's in a coffee specialty store, not a Denny's like restaurant.
*I'm not a fan of Starbucks, I use them becasue they are pretty much everywhere.
Huh? Boy oh boy i wanna move to where you are.. what cost $.30 here in 1975 now cost about $4, and worse, if you're dealing with items subject to "sin tax", like beer, tobacco, gas (if driving to the grocer's on the next brock a sin?). that's a little closer with rents, as an apartment i rented in 1975 for $200 is now $1300.. however, I had an accident in 1978, and have since ben on a disability, my allowance was $350 for rent, but now it's.. oh, wait, that hasn't changed in 35 years.. it's still $350;-)
For example, from the tone of your reply I assume you are not a "us person" and therefore you could be exported to GITMO with little fuss. I could not, because I'm a citizen. I would have to be declared an "enemy combatant" and therefore not subject to the protections of the Constitution of the country I would be accused of trying to destroy, then I could be shipped to GITMO. Huge difference, as you can see.
Well, I guess you haven't heard of the NDAA act yet.. that removes the restrictions you believe apply to the US citizen....
Well, no., since you ask. Not due to any 4th amendment rights, but rather, because we can't simply print as much money as we need. Our intelligence programs must work within a limited budget, so the only foreign nationals we spy on are those who pose a significant and present threat;-) Some countries such as certain eastern ones have their "spy" programs supplemented by US funds, so they can also afford to "accidentally" spy on more people than is reasonable, but that is not the norm...
...and we may choose to allow you that privilege (oops.. right) Should you choose to exercise that privilege (oops , right...) we'll know you're not a "troublemaker" and when we convict you we'll help you get a good view of the courtyard and a nice straight cellmate;-)
So, you are saying you want to give the copy you just sourced a detectable fingerprint? How do you not see that as a terrible idea?
I'd tend to agree with you.. since it is apparent that most anti-piracy approaches appear to simply be altered versions of the old communist techniques used to spy on and control ones' own citizens.. ie.. if you know what someone reads, where they obtained it, and what their reading habits are, or.. more recently, if you know what someone watches, what they share, who they share it with, or, what they listen to where they bought it, or obtained it etc.. you can either stop them from doing it, *control" what they read, listen to, or watch, such as "Pravda" did, collect information on them, or , as they did in Soviet Union, do all three, all the while without any signs that this indeed being done. In order to use these techniques to protect copyright, only difference is that they would have to show their hand (blow their cover. so to speak).
Copyright laws are a windfall for KGB and Stasi-like organizations.. such as CIA and DHS...
I swear i NEVER thought I would ever see the day that M$ was more responsive to it's customers needs than either Apple or Google. Looks like the "Big Bad Beast" has gotten a conscience.. while the "do no evil" camp has slowly become the devil incarnate... I think I like those guys at Redmond just a tiny bit more....;-)
Well, if you carefully read the original CNE T post, and the later comments.. what it amounts to is "we thinjk he may not agree with what he was quoted earlier as saying" There's no misinterpreted quotes here, or editorial mistakes, just an obvious "heavy hand " on the press to somehow retract the story without making it look so..
The problem wouldn't exist without the complicity of an uninformed and uneducated public, who believe the role of government is not to provide liberty opportunity and freedom from oppression *for* all, but "protection" and security *from* all..ie: to keep us safe from the "monster in the closet"
Soo.. who to believe.. The person who sacrificed a six figure salary, and any hope of ever living a secure and normal life again, or someone who is desperate to implement damage control dure to exposure of their unconstitutional activities?
Sure Snowden is lying. I mean, who *wouldn't* give up a six figure salary and put their life at risk in order to falsely implicate the government, of the only country they have citizenship in..
And of *course* the NSA is telling the truth.. after all, we all know that if somebody's charged with a crime, but they say they didn't do it, then you have to let them go.. because obviously the detectives made a mistake, or perhaps *they* are lying.. After all, what cop wouldn't sacrifice their career to falsely implicate someone in a crime..
Isn't that the same thing?
We,ll, that's very much like the Soviet era.. there, ordinary citizens, as well as local businesses collected information on their neighbours and customers, and every month would give their report to the local "community social service representative", who would then allow an increase in food allotments or whatever.. Only difference is the ISPs get to keep operating as a business instead of a food allowance...
Thank you , Apple, for making it soo easy for me to completely toss your rubbish OS.. After 20 years of faithful Apple servitude, the last 5 years have seen you throw out any goodwill, and any quality, and usability you've developed over the years.. Oh how quickly we have fallen! When OSX first came out, it was a stable marvel of UNIX heritage, but since 10.6, all the "improvements" have amounted to changes made solely with the shareholder's interests at heart..removing essential features, increasing incompatibility, creating forced (and expensive!) upgrades of software that no longer ran on Macs, ands increasingly sluggish, and unstable, performance. It's been years since a crash could lock up the entire OS, but now, it happens.. Did you just install a Major OS upgrade last year? Well, it's obsolete this year, already. Want to run your 2 year old Application, but it's incompatible suddenly? It's OK, buy a new one!..
For bloody years I was a "Mac Evangelist", but looks like the company has "feet of clay", or perhaps the Apple is rotten from the core...
That's OK, there's always Linux, and (heaven forbid) Windows.. although Windows 7 works very well, and will probably still be supported long after Apple completely abandons it's desktop market altogether...
That to me is a clincher...
Bye Bye...
And oh, how could I forget.. the Nazis, when going door to door in WW2, also said this..furthermore, like the others, if you didn't let them in, and let them steal whatever valuables they wanted, you *must* have something to hide.. so they felt justified in raping the women, and stealing all the valuables in any house they chose, because "they must be doing something wrong, otherwise they wouldn't object".
Welcome to the "New America".. just like 1930s Germany, or 20th century Soviet Union.. And soo many Americans (and Canadians) just rolled over for it, in the name of "protecting the citizens".
As the header said, if you have fine organizations like the Stasi and the KGB also saying "if you're not doing anything wrong, you should have noting to worry about".. then it must surely be true;-) Besides, the Chinese *also* are very pleased with the direction the North American intelligence services are taking...
Sometimes, one must first take actions which are doomed to fail. If you know an enemy is going to attack you, and you make a pre-emptive strike without first saying "Hey man, back off" or "I don't want any trouble," it can really come around to bite you in the ass. Furthermore, perhaps you are wrong. Asking in a petition for his honorable actions to be considered honorable and not criminal is a good first step even if you're positive it won't work....
Good point.. it shows basic honorable behavior.. and often it helps to bolster one's argument.. I don't know how effective it would be against an opponent with absolutely no integrity, but you'd be more likely to get the good will of the population.
As an additional comment about the referenced Wikipedia article, since the problem's worst in the UK and Ireland, where, incidentally, all the castles and mansions are, perhaps these impoverished lords and earls could lease out the 100 rooms in the "south wing" to cover their fuel costs...
No.. only with LOW doses of radiation.. high doses cause cancers and immune damage immediately.. although cancers are not the first apparent symptom. The higher the exposure, the quicker the death.. in severe cases it is one to two days.
And the Agenda 21 folks are.. you guessed it.. the UN, the very same folks who now say.. "hey radiation is GOOD for you!"~ "See.. all that Cesium and plutonium hasn't made anyone sick..!" "All the doctors listing increased cases of thyroid cancer are simply dumb..!" The UN officially called maintaining the worlds population above 500 million is "unsustainable", and the excess population must be gotten rid of.. "Hey how about a little radiation in the food chain?"..
MMM irradiated donuts...
Nobody's talking aout the 11th regeneration "bug",, ater Matt Smith that's it.. and furthermore, we saw him die (OK he didn't REALLY die, it was a duplicate, but he was 400 years in his OWN future AS the 11th doctor) I call BBC BS..
I'm saying we don't have lots of races with 1967 formula one racing cars any more.
Actually, that's not (ahem) *quite* true.. retro or vintage racing is fast increasing in popularity, especially by us "old folk", and is only limited by the availability of retired racing cars from all classifications, and by how many privateers can actually afford to risk racing a second hand McLaren or Ferrari !
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How is it that people are concerned for their "privacy" when some tourist videotapes, say, a beach scene in Torquay , England ( I gather going to Torquay for a lovely afternoon in the rain is an old British tradition ;-), yet every ten feet or so, on every street corner, on every block, in the country, and in every public bathroom and toilet stall, and every hallway and lobby, and every cafeteria is a CCTV camera spying on them.There's CCTV surveillance In every store, every pub, nightclub, arcade, every park, bridge, and even *under* every bridge. AFAIK, only the great Cathedrals haven't yet introduced them inside the pews and confessional booths.. although I expect the CofE might eventually just cave in on that matter.
And...yet, how is it these same people react with concern when someone inadvertently records them on their smartphone?
As regards networking..It's possibly the ONLY way to impress potential either future bosses or hiring managers, who are invariably members of the younger set, that us "self taught older types" can often be more competent and informed, simply by virtue of the fact that we not only are self starters, but chose our own "course material" and therefore are fully up to date on the subject matter.. having an active iinterest in it in the first place. Conversely, institutionally educated types spend a lot of time learning matters that they either have no interest in, or will never have to deal with. When I had an on call computer repair biz, I dealt with unusual or uncommon systems.. even though a lot of my clients were, in fact hobbyists, they still had real issues with unix or , perhaps, SGI machines, or perhaps BeOS or even OS/2... and didn't know where to turn. We might have had a lot more search engines back then (15 years ago) but finding out what one actually needed to know was definitely harder, and in fact a lot of my calls were about trying to get these machines online in the first place.. I can assure you that had I taken any kind of course I wouldn't have ever learned any of this stuff. In fact I did take a course in the 70's where I (sort of) learned how to program , in binary! What a waste of education. The only reason I got into computers anyways was because I got offered a position as special effects trainee at Bridge studios (Stargate SG-1, X-Files).. however, I simply couldn't learn computer skills fat enough to cinch the position.. (which was a condition). I didn't get offered this opportunity because of any education I might have had, but through networking only.. so that shows the potential value of it as opposed to a bunch of letters..
Why should it? In 1975(just before the Brazilian Freeze Coffee (an 8 oz cup) on average was 30 cents, 50 cents a year later) From http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi
What cost $.30 in 1975 would cost $1.26 in 2012.
A Tall at Starbucks* is 1.35. And it's in a coffee specialty store, not a Denny's like restaurant.
*I'm not a fan of Starbucks, I use them becasue they are pretty much everywhere.
Huh? Boy oh boy i wanna move to where you are.. what cost $.30 here in 1975 now cost about $4, and worse, if you're dealing with items subject to "sin tax", like beer, tobacco, gas (if driving to the grocer's on the next brock a sin?). that's a little closer with rents, as an apartment i rented in 1975 for $200 is now $1300.. however, I had an accident in 1978, and have since ben on a disability, my allowance was $350 for rent, but now it's.. oh, wait, that hasn't changed in 35 years.. it's still $350 ;-)
Actually "the length of this here stick" is the yard, as in "yardstick".. Of course one could always make the case for the cubit ...
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For example, from the tone of your reply I assume you are not a "us person" and therefore you could be exported to GITMO with little fuss. I could not, because I'm a citizen. I would have to be declared an "enemy combatant" and therefore not subject to the protections of the Constitution of the country I would be accused of trying to destroy, then I could be shipped to GITMO. Huge difference, as you can see.
Well, I guess you haven't heard of the NDAA act yet.. that removes the restrictions you believe apply to the US citizen....
Well, no., since you ask. Not due to any 4th amendment rights, but rather, because we can't simply print as much money as we need. Our intelligence programs must work within a limited budget, so the only foreign nationals we spy on are those who pose a significant and present threat ;-) Some countries such as certain eastern ones have their "spy" programs supplemented by US funds, so they can also afford to "accidentally" spy on more people than is reasonable, but that is not the norm...
...and we may choose to allow you that privilege (oops.. right) Should you choose to exercise that privilege (oops , right...) we'll know you're not a "troublemaker" and when we convict you we'll help you get a good view of the courtyard and a nice straight cellmate ;-)
So, you are saying you want to give the copy you just sourced a detectable fingerprint? How do you not see that as a terrible idea?
I'd tend to agree with you.. since it is apparent that most anti-piracy approaches appear to simply be altered versions of the old communist techniques used to spy on and control ones' own citizens.. ie.. if you know what someone reads, where they obtained it, and what their reading habits are, or.. more recently, if you know what someone watches, what they share, who they share it with, or, what they listen to where they bought it, or obtained it etc.. you can either stop them from doing it, *control" what they read, listen to, or watch, such as "Pravda" did, collect information on them, or , as they did in Soviet Union, do all three, all the while without any signs that this indeed being done. In order to use these techniques to protect copyright, only difference is that they would have to show their hand (blow their cover. so to speak). Copyright laws are a windfall for KGB and Stasi-like organizations.. such as CIA and DHS...
I swear i NEVER thought I would ever see the day that M$ was more responsive to it's customers needs than either Apple or Google. Looks like the "Big Bad Beast" has gotten a conscience.. while the "do no evil" camp has slowly become the devil incarnate... I think I like those guys at Redmond just a tiny bit more.... ;-)
Well, if you carefully read the original CNE T post, and the later comments.. what it amounts to is "we thinjk he may not agree with what he was quoted earlier as saying" There's no misinterpreted quotes here, or editorial mistakes, just an obvious "heavy hand " on the press to somehow retract the story without making it look so..
The problem wouldn't exist without the complicity of an uninformed and uneducated public, who believe the role of government is not to provide liberty opportunity and freedom from oppression *for* all, but "protection" and security *from* all ..ie: to keep us safe from the "monster in the closet"
Soo.. who to believe.. The person who sacrificed a six figure salary, and any hope of ever living a secure and normal life again, or someone who is desperate to implement damage control dure to exposure of their unconstitutional activities? Sure Snowden is lying. I mean, who *wouldn't* give up a six figure salary and put their life at risk in order to falsely implicate the government, of the only country they have citizenship in.. And of *course* the NSA is telling the truth.. after all, we all know that if somebody's charged with a crime, but they say they didn't do it, then you have to let them go.. because obviously the detectives made a mistake, or perhaps *they* are lying.. After all, what cop wouldn't sacrifice their career to falsely implicate someone in a crime ..
Isn't that the same thing?
We,ll, that's very much like the Soviet era.. there, ordinary citizens, as well as local businesses collected information on their neighbours and customers, and every month would give their report to the local "community social service representative", who would then allow an increase in food allotments or whatever.. Only difference is the ISPs get to keep operating as a business instead of a food allowance...
Naw, there's so many phones out there that there's a good chance *someone* will be inconvenienced!
Thank you , Apple, for making it soo easy for me to completely toss your rubbish OS.. After 20 years of faithful Apple servitude, the last 5 years have seen you throw out any goodwill, and any quality, and usability you've developed over the years.. Oh how quickly we have fallen! When OSX first came out, it was a stable marvel of UNIX heritage, but since 10.6, all the "improvements" have amounted to changes made solely with the shareholder's interests at heart..removing essential features, increasing incompatibility, creating forced (and expensive!) upgrades of software that no longer ran on Macs, ands increasingly sluggish, and unstable, performance. It's been years since a crash could lock up the entire OS, but now, it happens.. Did you just install a Major OS upgrade last year? Well, it's obsolete this year, already. Want to run your 2 year old Application, but it's incompatible suddenly? It's OK, buy a new one! ..
For bloody years I was a "Mac Evangelist", but looks like the company has "feet of clay", or perhaps the Apple is rotten from the core...
That's OK, there's always Linux, and (heaven forbid) Windows.. although Windows 7 works very well, and will probably still be supported long after Apple completely abandons it's desktop market altogether...
That to me is a clincher...
Bye Bye...
And oh, how could I forget.. the Nazis, when going door to door in WW2, also said this..furthermore, like the others, if you didn't let them in, and let them steal whatever valuables they wanted, you *must* have something to hide.. so they felt justified in raping the women, and stealing all the valuables in any house they chose, because "they must be doing something wrong, otherwise they wouldn't object". Welcome to the "New America".. just like 1930s Germany, or 20th century Soviet Union.. And soo many Americans (and Canadians) just rolled over for it, in the name of "protecting the citizens".
As the header said, if you have fine organizations like the Stasi and the KGB also saying "if you're not doing anything wrong, you should have noting to worry about".. then it must surely be true ;-) Besides, the Chinese *also* are very pleased with the direction the North American intelligence services are taking...
Sometimes, one must first take actions which are doomed to fail. If you know an enemy is going to attack you, and you make a pre-emptive strike without first saying "Hey man, back off" or "I don't want any trouble," it can really come around to bite you in the ass. Furthermore, perhaps you are wrong. Asking in a petition for his honorable actions to be considered honorable and not criminal is a good first step even if you're positive it won't work....
Good point.. it shows basic honorable behavior.. and often it helps to bolster one's argument.. I don't know how effective it would be against an opponent with absolutely no integrity, but you'd be more likely to get the good will of the population.
As an additional comment about the referenced Wikipedia article, since the problem's worst in the UK and Ireland, where, incidentally, all the castles and mansions are, perhaps these impoverished lords and earls could lease out the 100 rooms in the "south wing" to cover their fuel costs...
Really? "on average those in the most extreme fuel poverty live in larger than average homes" Boy that's my kind of poverty..
No.. only with LOW doses of radiation.. high doses cause cancers and immune damage immediately.. although cancers are not the first apparent symptom. The higher the exposure, the quicker the death.. in severe cases it is one to two days.
And the Agenda 21 folks are.. you guessed it.. the UN, the very same folks who now say.. "hey radiation is GOOD for you!"~ "See.. all that Cesium and plutonium hasn't made anyone sick..!" "All the doctors listing increased cases of thyroid cancer are simply dumb..!" The UN officially called maintaining the worlds population above 500 million is "unsustainable", and the excess population must be gotten rid of.. "Hey how about a little radiation in the food chain?".. MMM irradiated donuts...
I'd have to agree.. What's more, however, he DOES know it's a mess..didn't the lead designer for win 8 get fired?
Nobody's talking aout the 11th regeneration "bug",, ater Matt Smith that's it.. and furthermore, we saw him die (OK he didn't REALLY die, it was a duplicate, but he was 400 years in his OWN future AS the 11th doctor) I call BBC BS..
Not really,
I'm saying we don't have lots of races with 1967 formula one racing cars any more.
Actually, that's not (ahem) *quite* true.. retro or vintage racing is fast increasing in popularity, especially by us "old folk", and is only limited by the availability of retired racing cars from all classifications, and by how many privateers can actually afford to risk racing a second hand McLaren or Ferrari !