Both parents are coming at this from the wrong angle. They are both advocating 'one steb back', or 'raising the ante'.
What actually needs to be done is to draw a line and say, "beyond this point you cannot go" I will not surrender any more of my liberties for any reason whatsoever. This must apply to all immoral laws and regulations that strip away your rights.
The root of the problem is foreign policy. That is what needs to be fixed with utmost urgency, not the lack of powers the police have to force you to reveal your private keys, or tap your phone or otherwise violate you.
Retreating into more secret and clever ways to protect your data doesn't address the problem and source pressure that provides governments a 'reason' to strip your rights away; its actually diverting engergy away from forcing government to do the right thing in foreign policy and hence, solve the entire cause for the erosion of your rights in one swift stroke.
where it probably most needs to be seen is where it isn't getting any significant play.
The american people are just not listening at the moment. Michael Moore's film was widely played and seen in plenty of time for the last election, and it made no difference at all.
If you were to play the (excellent) Power of Nightmares twice on NBC ABC and CBS not one mind would be changed in the US. They actually dont want to hear anything that contradicts their new religion.
The reality is that FOX is the perfect reflection of the american mentality, and the pulpit of this religion, and that evil fountain of poision is what the majority want to hear and what they want to believe.
No documentary will be able to break through this.
There is a difference between useful feedback coming from users and what amounts to swipes coming from 'journalists'. Words that discourages adoption by spreading myths like 'the usability is poor' doesn't help anyone fix anything.
I just installed FC4 yesterday (from DVD by the way, whcih didnt work for hte author of TFA). FC4 worked just as expected, and installed painlessly. It is not bloated at all in fact, lots needs to be added to it to make it more useful, like, the automatic recognition and mounting of NTFS discs that are found when you install.
Essentially, these sorts of critique should be made privately but then again, who is going to read this article that really matters? Not alot of people I would imagine....
No NTFS support out of the box; that is a sign of the opposite of bloat.
And as for usability, go and fix it. Set up a foundation and collect money to run it and write software to make it usable.
Complaining aobut software is what you do to closed source vendors. You have the ability to change this stuff, so dont complain about it, hire someone to fix it, and while you are at it, appreciate the free work that people put into this frankly, astoundingly robust stuff.
"Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
Ah yes; the 'phychos' at Ruby Ridge, Waco and other places...you and immediate parent have now joined ther ranks. They were right all along, and only now when it comes right to your doors is it time to get out the guns.
You will be mowed down and burned alive just like they were, and no one will come to your rescue. You will be called a 'terrorist' and a 'phycho' in the news and everyone will hate you, even though you are completely in the right.
It demonstrates most simply, that the price of harvesting people's information is much less than the rewards you will reap after having paid for the files.
Approx £4 sterling per account, withdraw £100 per account on average.....PROFIT!
And once the 'authorities' find out who did it, what can they do to that person? Put them in gaol. What can the buyer of the call centre service do to the company that provided the service? Put them out of business. Niether of these things will do much to compensate the millions of poor account holders whose data is being traded all over the world.
The best thing is to not use these external services at all, and pay more for better internal security. That could even be a unique selling point.
"You know the government will be keen to get companies to use ID cards as the sole/principal form of identification for entering contracts with the public.
You know that access to ID card information would inevitably lead to disclosure of NIR information.
You know that the government wants to involve offshoring to deal with NHS queries.
You know that either your ID would be successfully hijacked or that an intercepted 'ID theft' attempt would lead to a suspension of your ID information and thus access to any services the government limits access to (Healthcare, DSS payments, freedom of movement, etc.)
You know it is cheap enough for anyone with the motivation to get this sort of information."
Indeed; it means that we need to abandon the insane rush to issue everyone with ID cards equipped with unique numbers. We should also be putting a monetary penalty for the theft of data, so that there is a strong incentive to guard data properly.
They will envious of people who took the time to translate the music they had to free formats
I know one person just like this, who is your typical B&O / Vaio luser. He proudly announced to me that he had just finished converting all of his 800+ cds to....WMA.
I explained to him that this was not really a good idea, because one day these files might not play on a future version of Windows Media Player. I explained to him that he could download iTunes for free, and that he could use it to rip his collection into a format that he would be able to access 'forever'.
He will not do this for several reasons.
Firstly, I showed him that he was dumb, and that he wasted his time; he would not possibly be able to 'back down'. Secondly, he just spent weeks ripping his whole collection and is loath to do it all again.
There will, sadly, always be people who are stupid like this, and it will literally take the elimination of ALL of their music before they wake up and understand what DRM is all about.
This guy is lucky, in that he has CDs to re-rip from. The idiots who are buying DRM'd files without any way to back track and free thier music are, like parent says, going to find out the hard way.
Europeans need to stop reacting to every thing and innovation coming from the USA; they need to use whatever little imagination they have left to originate initiatives like this, otherwise they will be constantly cobbliing projects together defensively instead of creatively.
They are not asking the right questions, and when they do and they get the answers, they are doing nothing about these answers - like this digitization project. For years everyone has been saying that the new British Library was a waste of money, and that the whole collection should be scanned and moved to a giant warehouse somewhere, but no one listened, one of the biggest brick buildings ever was built to house the collection (which is off limits to the public, being open only to 'researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs') and now they have a pathetic website that boasts about their 'treasures' 15 of which you can 'get close to'.
That simply is not good enough.
Google is going to scan millions of books, and make them available to all for free. By doing this, the books and knowledge, and the Google service itself, become a TRUE treasure, one that everyone can use to enhance their lives. What the British Library is doing is hoarding information, it is the modern equivalent of a chained library, of the type that used to exist when books were expensive; where literaly, volumes were chained to walls, and only the rich could access them.
What a shameful place that is, and what a total waste of a nearly unique resource!
1953: Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century Daffy Duck,Porky Pig,Marvin Martian: July,25 MM Chuck Jones
Marvin makes his third appearance in this cartoon parody of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.Duck Dodgers(Daffy Duck) and his eager space cadet, Porky Pig, traval to Planet X, the only remaining source of Illudium Phosdex(the shaving cream atom) to claim it for Earth. But Duck Dodgers winds up in a battle with Marvin, who's dead-set on claiming Planet X in the name of Mars.
extremely fine biomedical imaging in-vivo and greater increases in transistor density for microchips by superlens augmentation of photolithography masks
What about thinnner, lighter spectacle lenses for the 'Coke bottle' lens wearing, brunt of endless jokes myopic geeks?!
They were £100 new in 1980. This says in 2002, £100.00 from 1980 is worth: £263.54 using the retail price index. Hmmmm... better investments somewhere else? I wonder.
Even if they manage to do this, all the P2P client developers have to do is get each client to sign the files that it is hosting and sharing. Then, via a web of trust that can be built by people signing the public keys of each others clients (say, when they get a good file), any spoofing and polluting client (and its shitty files) can be excluded (modded down so that they are invisible) because they do not have enough good signatures, or indeed, no signature at all.
I'm not by any means an advocate of government control,
Yes, you totaly are.
but being certain of the identity of a telephone owner isn't necessarily a bad thing. For instance, if the telephone is used to harass somebody else
Then the telephone company can kill the line. Duh. Taking a persons ID wont prevent harrassment or any crime whatsoever. You can buy a SIM card with someone eleses ID in France BTW; I have personally seen it done. The whole thing is a nonsense, and the biometric layer on top of the ID nonsense is just an excuse to corrall and number everyone like cattle.
, or to detonate explosive devices by remote control (remember the Madrid bombings ?)
We can file this part of your reply under "It makes me feel safer". You are part of the problem.
Huh... hello ? I sure would hope for banks anywhere in the world to check for positive ID before doing *any* transaction.
Why? An account holders relationship with his bank is a private one. If the bank does not require state issued ID for transactions, that is the bank's afffair and no one elses. If you want an account where you have to be fingerprinted every time you withdraw YOUR money, then you can find a bank that gives you that 'service', but what is totally wrong is when the state compells a bank or other service provider to identify its customers with state issued ID. They have no business making themselvs intermediaries in private transactions of this type. Period.
For *prescription-only* drugs
If I have a prescription in my hands, and go to a pharmacy, there is no reason why I should not be handed my medicine without any other checks, and without a state issued number being recorded against the transaction. Its my money, my medical problem, my pharmacist my doctor and no ones business what drugs I am taking. Of course, idiots and retarded persons do not understand that a uniquie number recorded against your prescriptions can give access to unauthorized parties to all of you medical details. Presenting ID is not needed for transactions of this type, and people who want drugs without prescriptions do not need to go to the pharmacy with someone elses stolen prescription to get what they want. The retardation runs deep and dark.
Ah ! Those wacky French.
We can file this part of your reply under "I dont want to have my identity stolen". IDs will not help keeep your ID out of the hands of criminals, but instead will help criminals impersonate you with consumate ease. You need to read more about this subject. You can start right here on/..
I've got the strange feeling you're confusing "freedom" and "anonymity". These are two different and unrelated concepts. For instance, if there was a law against writing under a pseudonym, it wouldn't mean you have no freedom of speech. Just that you need to speak under your real name.
And someone modded this as 'insightful'. Well, you, and the person who modded you up are both part of the problem. You cannot fathom where the logic of all of this lies because you are probably under 25, and a part of this apalling indolent and apathetic 'whatever' generation for whom, sadly, people died in wars. It was a waste, clearly, since you do not have the slightest idea of what a free life looks like.
ID cards are not about the police being able to stop you in the street; they are for control of everything else you do.
Try and buy a SIM card in Paris without an ID. You cannot do it. You also cannot do many other things that a free person is entitled to without the interference of a government issued document, like borrow money, open a bank account, buy medicine etc etc. Astonishingly it is the ordinary citizen that enforces ID controls on his fellow man, and not a direct employee of the state that is in your face every day demanding your ID. Rather like the legions of STASI spies reporting on their fellow East Germans.
This is what unique identifying numbers and ID compulsion are for; automatic fine grained control and observation of all your financial and social interactions and movements, executed by the citizens themselvs against other citizens.
Of course, the whole think is impossible to roll out if there is mass refusal to cooperate, but there are always the mentally retarded who say things like "I dont see a problem with it"..."I dont want my identity stolen"..."It makes me feel safer"...and even..."How can you control identity without it?" (said to me by a French man). These imbeciles are the perpetual stumbling blocks to the continuation and longevity of any sort of freedom in the west.
We all everyone has an asshole. Oops, wrong word. I meant opinion. That doesn't make other people's opinions incorrect. Theirs has the same flowery aromas as yours, mine, and the fat guy in the next cube.
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Both parents are coming at this from the wrong angle. They are both advocating 'one steb back', or 'raising the ante'.
What actually needs to be done is to draw a line and say, "beyond this point you cannot go" I will not surrender any more of my liberties for any reason whatsoever. This must apply to all immoral laws and regulations that strip away your rights.
The root of the problem is foreign policy. That is what needs to be fixed with utmost urgency, not the lack of powers the police have to force you to reveal your private keys, or tap your phone or otherwise violate you.
Retreating into more secret and clever ways to protect your data doesn't address the problem and source pressure that provides governments a 'reason' to strip your rights away; its actually diverting engergy away from forcing government to do the right thing in foreign policy and hence, solve the entire cause for the erosion of your rights in one swift stroke.
where it probably most needs to be seen is where it isn't getting any significant play.
The american people are just not listening at the moment. Michael Moore's film was widely played and seen in plenty of time for the last election, and it made no difference at all.
If you were to play the (excellent) Power of Nightmares twice on NBC ABC and CBS not one mind would be changed in the US. They actually dont want to hear anything that contradicts their new religion.
The reality is that FOX is the perfect reflection of the american mentality, and the pulpit of this religion, and that evil fountain of poision is what the majority want to hear and what they want to believe.
No documentary will be able to break through this.
There is a difference between useful feedback coming from users and what amounts to swipes coming from 'journalists'. Words that discourages adoption by spreading myths like 'the usability is poor' doesn't help anyone fix anything.
I just installed FC4 yesterday (from DVD by the way, whcih didnt work for hte author of TFA). FC4 worked just as expected, and installed painlessly. It is not bloated at all in fact, lots needs to be added to it to make it more useful, like, the automatic recognition and mounting of NTFS discs that are found when you install.
Essentially, these sorts of critique should be made privately but then again, who is going to read this article that really matters? Not alot of people I would imagine....
No NTFS support out of the box; that is a sign of the opposite of bloat.
And as for usability, go and fix it. Set up a foundation and collect money to run it and write software to make it usable.
Complaining aobut software is what you do to closed source vendors. You have the ability to change this stuff, so dont complain about it, hire someone to fix it, and while you are at it, appreciate the free work that people put into this frankly, astoundingly robust stuff.
"Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
Ah yes; the 'phychos' at Ruby Ridge, Waco and other places...you and immediate parent have now joined ther ranks. They were right all along, and only now when it comes right to your doors is it time to get out the guns.
You will be mowed down and burned alive just like they were, and no one will come to your rescue. You will be called a 'terrorist' and a 'phycho' in the news and everyone will hate you, even though you are completely in the right.
that everyone has their price ?
It demonstrates most simply, that the price of harvesting people's information is much less than the rewards you will reap after having paid for the files.
Approx £4 sterling per account, withdraw £100 per account on average.....PROFIT!
And once the 'authorities' find out who did it, what can they do to that person? Put them in gaol. What can the buyer of the call centre service do to the company that provided the service? Put them out of business. Niether of these things will do much to compensate the millions of poor account holders whose data is being traded all over the world.
The best thing is to not use these external services at all, and pay more for better internal security. That could even be a unique selling point.
They will envious of people who took the time to translate the music they had to free formats
I know one person just like this, who is your typical B&O / Vaio luser. He proudly announced to me that he had just finished converting all of his 800+ cds to....WMA.
I explained to him that this was not really a good idea, because one day these files might not play on a future version of Windows Media Player. I explained to him that he could download iTunes for free, and that he could use it to rip his collection into a format that he would be able to access 'forever'.
He will not do this for several reasons.
Firstly, I showed him that he was dumb, and that he wasted his time; he would not possibly be able to 'back down'. Secondly, he just spent weeks ripping his whole collection and is loath to do it all again.
There will, sadly, always be people who are stupid like this, and it will literally take the elimination of ALL of their music before they wake up and understand what DRM is all about.
This guy is lucky, in that he has CDs to re-rip from. The idiots who are buying DRM'd files without any way to back track and free thier music are, like parent says, going to find out the hard way.
And americans should resolve their own government censorship problems before they go telling other people what to say and how to say it.
I wonder how many of those 'activists' have even been to China, or for that matter, even have passports.
Oh to have mod points!!!
Europeans need to stop reacting to every thing and innovation coming from the USA; they need to use whatever little imagination they have left to originate initiatives like this, otherwise they will be constantly cobbliing projects together defensively instead of creatively.
They are not asking the right questions, and when they do and they get the answers, they are doing nothing about these answers - like this digitization project. For years everyone has been saying that the new British Library was a waste of money, and that the whole collection should be scanned and moved to a giant warehouse somewhere, but no one listened, one of the biggest brick buildings ever was built to house the collection (which is off limits to the public, being open only to 'researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs') and now they have a pathetic website that boasts about their 'treasures' 15 of which you can 'get close to'.
That simply is not good enough.
Google is going to scan millions of books, and make them available to all for free. By doing this, the books and knowledge, and the Google service itself, become a TRUE treasure, one that everyone can use to enhance their lives. What the British Library is doing is hoarding information, it is the modern equivalent of a chained library, of the type that used to exist when books were expensive; where literaly, volumes were chained to walls, and only the rich could access them.
What a shameful place that is, and what a total waste of a nearly unique resource!
It is precisely:
'Illudium Pew-36 Explosive Space Modulator'
1953: Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century
Daffy Duck,Porky Pig,Marvin Martian: July,25 MM Chuck Jones
Marvin makes his third appearance in this cartoon parody of
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.Duck Dodgers(Daffy Duck) and his eager space cadet, Porky Pig, traval to Planet X, the only remaining source of Illudium Phosdex(the shaving cream atom) to claim it for Earth. But Duck Dodgers winds up in a battle with Marvin, who's dead-set on claiming Planet X in the name of Mars.
CANT YOU PEOPLE READ?!
extremely fine biomedical imaging in-vivo and greater increases in transistor density for microchips by superlens augmentation of photolithography masks
What about thinnner, lighter spectacle lenses for the 'Coke bottle' lens wearing, brunt of endless jokes myopic geeks?!
That's a lot
They were £100 new in 1980. This says in 2002, £100.00 from 1980 is worth: £263.54 using the retail price index. Hmmmm... better investments somewhere else? I wonder.
Who has ever heard of an original SONY Walkman going for collectors prices?
There are some on ebay, for the princely sum of $11, meaning they are just hovering above junk now.
The same thing will probably happen to these 1st gen digital players.
That reading the Guardian lowers your IQ.
Substantially.
Is there anything Perl can't do?
Rails.
Hmmm can I import all the old searches that Google has stored against my cookie?
If not, why not?
Even if they manage to do this, all the P2P client developers have to do is get each client to sign the files that it is hosting and sharing. Then, via a web of trust that can be built by people signing the public keys of each others clients (say, when they get a good file), any spoofing and polluting client (and its shitty files) can be excluded (modded down so that they are invisible) because they do not have enough good signatures, or indeed, no signature at all.
Problem solved.
I'm not by any means an advocate of government control,
/. .
Yes, you totaly are.
but being certain of the identity of a telephone owner isn't necessarily a bad thing. For instance, if the telephone is used to harass somebody else
Then the telephone company can kill the line. Duh. Taking a persons ID wont prevent harrassment or any crime whatsoever. You can buy a SIM card with someone eleses ID in France BTW; I have personally seen it done. The whole thing is a nonsense, and the biometric layer on top of the ID nonsense is just an excuse to corrall and number everyone like cattle.
, or to detonate explosive devices by remote control (remember the Madrid bombings ?)
We can file this part of your reply under "It makes me feel safer". You are part of the problem.
Huh... hello ? I sure would hope for banks anywhere in the world to check for positive ID before doing *any* transaction.
Why? An account holders relationship with his bank is a private one. If the bank does not require state issued ID for transactions, that is the bank's afffair and no one elses. If you want an account where you have to be fingerprinted every time you withdraw YOUR money, then you can find a bank that gives you that 'service', but what is totally wrong is when the state compells a bank or other service provider to identify its customers with state issued ID. They have no business making themselvs intermediaries in private transactions of this type. Period.
For *prescription-only* drugs
If I have a prescription in my hands, and go to a pharmacy, there is no reason why I should not be handed my medicine without any other checks, and without a state issued number being recorded against the transaction. Its my money, my medical problem, my pharmacist my doctor and no ones business what drugs I am taking. Of course, idiots and retarded persons do not understand that a uniquie number recorded against your prescriptions can give access to unauthorized parties to all of you medical details. Presenting ID is not needed for transactions of this type, and people who want drugs without prescriptions do not need to go to the pharmacy with someone elses stolen prescription to get what they want. The retardation runs deep and dark.
Ah ! Those wacky French.
We can file this part of your reply under "I dont want to have my identity stolen". IDs will not help keeep your ID out of the hands of criminals, but instead will help criminals impersonate you with consumate ease. You need to read more about this subject. You can start right here on
I've got the strange feeling you're confusing "freedom" and "anonymity". These are two different and unrelated concepts. For instance, if there was a law against writing under a pseudonym, it wouldn't mean you have no freedom of speech. Just that you need to speak under your real name.
And someone modded this as 'insightful'. Well, you, and the person who modded you up are both part of the problem. You cannot fathom where the logic of all of this lies because you are probably under 25, and a part of this apalling indolent and apathetic 'whatever' generation for whom, sadly, people died in wars. It was a waste, clearly, since you do not have the slightest idea of what a free life looks like.
ID cards are not about the police being able to stop you in the street; they are for control of everything else you do.
Try and buy a SIM card in Paris without an ID. You cannot do it. You also cannot do many other things that a free person is entitled to without the interference of a government issued document, like borrow money, open a bank account, buy medicine etc etc. Astonishingly it is the ordinary citizen that enforces ID controls on his fellow man, and not a direct employee of the state that is in your face every day demanding your ID. Rather like the legions of STASI spies reporting on their fellow East Germans.
This is what unique identifying numbers and ID compulsion are for; automatic fine grained control and observation of all your financial and social interactions and movements, executed by the citizens themselvs against other citizens.
Of course, the whole think is impossible to roll out if there is mass refusal to cooperate, but there are always the mentally retarded who say things like "I dont see a problem with it"..."I dont want my identity stolen"..."It makes me feel safer"...and even..."How can you control identity without it?" (said to me by a French man). These imbeciles are the perpetual stumbling blocks to the continuation and longevity of any sort of freedom in the west.
How can we be rid of them?!
We all everyone has an asshole. Oops, wrong word. I meant opinion. That doesn't make other people's opinions incorrect. Theirs has the same flowery aromas as yours, mine, and the fat guy in the next cube.
Supersize Me.
Some things are just plain wrong, and ignorance about bad food, like computer illiteracy, is one of them.
Guinness vs. Bud Light.
Comparing Guiness to chilled urine is just silly.
look down on them with a snotty attitude, either. :)
Have you ever EATEN real chocolate? If you think Côte d'Or is good, then the answer must be 'no'.
Côte d'Or is good chocolate and 'Linux isnt ready for the desktop'.
Both of these statements are lies.